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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

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The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Artist Quotes , Long Quotes

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Artist Quotes

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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