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Art

«The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.»
«The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.»
Author: Auguste Rodin | About: Art, Creativity | Keywords: consumed, spark, the fire
«The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.»
Author: Ethel Barrymore | About: Art, Pleasure | Keywords: arts, instantaneous
«The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.»
Author: Eugene Delacroix | About: Achievement, Art, Perfection | Keywords: achieves, aims
«The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.»
«The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.»
«The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.»
«The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements»
«The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else»
«The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.»