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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. --Edith Warton

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. --Andre Gide

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. --Paul Guaguin

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. --Leo Tolstoy

But that's what being an artist is -- feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. --The New Yorker

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. --Henry Ward Beecher

Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of our emotions. --Wassily Kandinsky

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. --Emma Albani

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. --Orson Welles

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. --Michelangelo

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. --Stella Adler

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. --Henry Fielding

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. -- Jawaharial Nehru

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. --Max Eastman

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. --Leonardo DaVinci

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 belive in Art for Art's sake. --E. M. Forster