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As a general
truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a
moral impression is a bad picture.
-- Edmond and Jules De
Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers
Art is on the
side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the
simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the
freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can
it exist within the oppressors?
-- Nadine Gordimer
1923-, South African Author
Art is so
wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary
all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a
puritan to understand.
-- Gunther Grass
1927-, German Author
There is only
one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the
authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and
suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the
standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to
which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims
allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work
or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
-- Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright,
President
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Art is a
reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a
reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it
approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
-- Benjamin Haydon
1786-1846, British Artist
If we are to
change our world view, images have to change. The artist now
has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral
figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
-- David Hockney
1937-, British Artist
A picture is a
poem without words.
-- Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet
The finest
works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they
make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for
a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly
and feel nobly.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
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