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'Tis well - but, Artists! who can paint or write, To draw the naked is your true delight: That robe of quality so struts and swells, None see what parts of nature it conceals. Th' exactest traits of body or of mind, We owe to models of an humble kind. - Alexander Pope
The artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can attain it in nothing. - Eugene Delacroix
Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. - Eudora Welty
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. - Ezra Loomis Pound
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. - Henry Louis Mencken
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world. - Joseph Campbell
Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts ... express their beauty abstractly.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. - Marcel Duchamp
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. - Maurice Baring
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. - Oscar Wilde
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. - Paul Schrader
Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and the graceful; then will youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effulgence of works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a pure region, and insensibly draw the soul from the earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason. - Plato
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. - Queen Victoria
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. - Andy Warhol
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence. - Jane Jacobs

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