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Quotes about art
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (Taylor Niki)
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. (Taylor Niki)
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? (Taylor Niki)
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. (Taylor Niki)
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If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them. (Taylor Niki)
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. (Taylor Niki)
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world? (Taylor Niki)
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. (Taylor Niki)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. (Taylor Niki)
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. (Taylor Niki)
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. (Taylor Niki)
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Taylor Niki)
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. (Taylor Niki)
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. (Taylor Niki)
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. (Taylor Niki)
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. (Taylor Niki)
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. (Taylor Niki)
Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress. (Taylor Niki)
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. (Taylor Niki)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Taylor Niki)
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. (Taylor Niki)
We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art. (Taylor Niki)
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. (Taylor Niki)
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant. (Taylor Niki)
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. (Taylor Niki)
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