Art Quotes

• "Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth."
  By: Vita Sackville-West
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• "Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own."
  By: Benjamin Constant
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• "I find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made."
  By: Andrew Kuntz
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• "There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
  By: Richard Avedon
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• "Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems."
  By: Helen M. Winslow
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• "Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
  By: Carl Jung
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• "[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
  By: Rebecca West
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• "[He] must have an angel in his head."
  By: Pablo Picasso
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• "[French is] the language that turns dirt into romance."
  By: Stephen King
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• "[I work until] beer o'clock."
  By: Stephen King
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• "Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning? and when she says, "No," he will say, Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish And that's your chance, my boy."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "It ought to be remembered by all [that the Olympic] Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And … if a war was going on, they called [it] off … I wish we were that civilized."
  By: Ronald Reagan
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• "Sometimes those last few days seem like something I read in a book, but with your wire to cling to I get back to realization [sic] with a very satisfactory bump."
  By: Ronald Reagan
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• "[Ragtime] was a fanfare for the 20th century."
  By: Russell Lynes
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• "The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco."
  By: Russell Lynes
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• "The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there."
  By: Russell Lynes
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