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Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: affect, arts, day, highest , quality

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

by Lionel Trilling (Critic, American , born in 1905) keywords: artists, imitate, immature, mature , steal

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

by Harry S. Truman (President, American , born in 1884) keywords: art, criticism, just, life , parasitic

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: art, breathing, certain, offers, room, space , spirit

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

by Paul Valery (Poet, French , born in 1871) keywords: abandons, artist, finishes, his, merely, never, really , work

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

by Edgard Varese (Composer, American , born in 1883) keywords: ahead, artist, behind, far, his, most, never, theirs , time

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

by Andy Warhol (Artist, American , born in 1927) keywords: artist, need, produces, somebody , things

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

by Andy Warhol (Artist, American , born in 1927) keywords: afraid, enough, long, look, loses, meaning , thing

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

by Walt Whitman (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: art, expression, glory, letters, light, simplicity , sunshine

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: art, result, temperament, unique , work

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: art, desire, far, general, imitates, life, more, out, point, principle , than

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: art , individualism

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: admire, art, equally, impartially, only , schools

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: art , life

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: artist

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: arts, beliefs , culture

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: art, modern, notion, public, fiction , game

William Wordsworth

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

by William Wordsworth (Poet, English , born in 1770) keywords: decorate, more, often, pictures, than, them , walls

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) keywords: art , philosophy

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

by Emile Zola (Novelist, French , born in 1840) keywords: artist, gift, nothing, without , work

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