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Quotes The Key to Life

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw

Advertising was the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Marshall McLuhan

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Clive Barker

Every man's work is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

John Keats

Handel is the greatest composer who has ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel at his grave.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.

Helena Bonham Carter

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Pablo Picasso

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Life imitates art.

Oscar Wilde

Make your life a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

My written and painted thoughts, for which alone I have colours, many colours, perhaps, many multicoloured brushes and fifty yellows and browns and greens and reds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement, it's a retaliation to the industrial revolution, while people were gathering into cities, a few went back to nature.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. That is to say, real art takes no part in molding the social or moral identities of society, nor should it. Art had no moral responsibility. Art, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

Oscar Wilde

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

E. M. Forster

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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