| Author |
Quotes |
| Robert Schumann | To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. |
| Roger Lewis | I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives. |
| Sarah Brightman | I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy. |
| Sarah Brightman | You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way. |
| Simone de Beauvoir | In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. |
| Stella Adler | Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. |
| Theodor W Adorno | Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. |
| Theodore Dreiser | Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. |
| Thomas Berger | What is art but a way of seeing?. |
| Twyla Tharp | Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. |
| Vicky Elliott | Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red. |
| W H Auden | What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. |
| William Faulkner | The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. |
| William Wordsworth | Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. |
| Wynetka Ann Reynolds | Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. |
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