Al Alvarez Quotes, Art Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

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Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

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Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

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If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

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I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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