All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
William Saroyan
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DEYTH BANGER Documentary photography has nothing whatsoever to do with art. But it is an art for all that.
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DAISETZ TEITARO 'D.T.' SUZUKI Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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IRIS APFEL No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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DON MCCULLIN Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, w...
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SAVI SHARMA Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Art never improves, but . . . the material of art is never quite the same.
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J C A ROWE Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward ete...
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ELIZABETH PEYTON You see corruption all over Latin America, but Brazil has raised it to a new art. It's disillusionin...
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BRUCE BAGLEY All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUND Art has never been a popularity contest.
JAMES LEVINE It's too bad that it has been shortened, it was all over too quickly.
GENEVIEVE SIMARD All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in t...
ROMAN PAYNE The great Art is the Art of the mind and soul
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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MAX BILL Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE