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Fine art, that
exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of
impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art
as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a
kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of
the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living
becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
-- Angela Carter
1940-1992, British Author
Art is good
when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the
guarantee of its value; there is no other.
-- Neal Cassady
1926-1968, American Beat Hero
Artistic
growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the
sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be
truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows
how difficult it is.
-- Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author
Religion and
art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics
and art are strangers.
-- Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author
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With an apple
I will astonish Paris.
-- Paul Cezanne
1839-1906. French Painter
When I am
finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it --
a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a
kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing
man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a
clash between the two, it is bad art.
-- Marc Chagall
1889-1985, French Artist
When I judge
art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object
like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
-- Marc Chagall
1889-1985, French Artist
The creative
artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you
could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as
an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego
is always in the foreground of every picture.
-- Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author
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