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«The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work»
Author: Berthold Auerbach
| About:
Art,
Work
| Keywords:
completion, dissatisfaction, germ, The Germ
«The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.»
«The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.»
«The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.»
«The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Art,
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, one and only, substitute, The One and Only
«The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery»
«The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
define, definition, explained, explanation, irreplaceable, painting, substitute, valid
«The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
cleavage, cultivates, fornicate, fornicated, fornicates
«The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he tak»
«The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Meaning,
Understanding
| Keywords:
work of art
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