“The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Bad artists always admire each others work.”
Oscar Wilde
“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Emile Zola
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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