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Artful Quotes (page 101)

Andy Warhol quote: "You know it's ART, when the check clears."
You know it's ART, when the check clears. Andy Warhol
Neil Gaiman quote: "Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art."
Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art. Neil Gaiman
William Blake quote: "When nations grow old the Arts grow cold. And commerce settles..."
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold. And commerce settles on every tree William Blake
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.) Charles Dickens
Robert Henri quote: "All real works of art look as though they were done in joy."
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. Robert Henri
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. Lew Wallace
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction. Toni Morrison
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of... Oscar Wilde
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art"
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare quote: "Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure."
Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure. William Shakespeare
Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in... Mark Helprin
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. Haruki Murakami
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. Rene Daumal
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possible to accomplish almost anything. Possible for an... Alan Moore

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