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Art

«A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.»
«A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind»
Author: Eugene Ionesco | About: Adventure, Art | Keywords: above all, adventure, work of art
«A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.»
Author: Jacob Epstein | About: Art, Lovers, Wives
«A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.»
Author: Norman Parkinson | About: Art | Keywords: farmer, Fields, magazine, photographer
«A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.»
Author: Beverly Sills | About: Art | Keywords: autonomy, environmental, liberate, permit, primary
«A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.»
«A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.»
«A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts»
«A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.»
«Bad artists always admire each others work.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Art | Keywords: admire, always, artists, bad, each, others, work