| Quotations on the subject: Arts and Entertainment |
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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