Artists

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To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Akira Kurosawa

Quoted in The New York Times

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Speaker

Akira Kurosawa

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Obituary Newspaper

Language

Japanese

Time

20th century

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Citation

Lyman, Rick. "Akira Kurosawa, Film Director, Is Dead at 88." New York Times, 7 Sept. 1998, Section A, Page 1, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/07/movies/akira-kurosawa-film-director-is-dead-at-88.html.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Intentions

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Artistic vision Artists Art

Speaker

Vivian

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Decay of Lying Intentions

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Decay of Lying." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Decay of Lying." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.

Paul Gauguin

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Author

Paul Gauguin

Source

Letters of Paul Gauguin

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gauguin, Paul. "Un lettre de paul gauguin: a propos de sevres et du demier." Le Soir, 25 Apr. 1895.

Current Citation

Gauguin, Paul. The Writings of a Savage, translated by Eleanor Levieux, edited by Daniel Guérin. Da Capo Press, 1996.

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.

Joseph Conrad

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Artists Power of art

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

The Nigger of the Narcissus

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Ratatouille

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Speaker

Anton Ego

Actor

Peter O'Toole

Source

Ratatouille

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Comedy (film) Animation Comedy

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ratatouille. Directed by Brad Bird, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2007.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Artists Art market

Author

Andy Warhol

Source

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 10.

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Oscar Wilde

Fortnightly Review

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Artistic vision Authenticity Personal integrity Artists Art

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Soul of Man Under Socialism Fortnightly Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

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Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1857 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Madamoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. 18 Mar. 1857.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

Though the great artists of the past could not change the course of history, it is only through their work that we are able to break bread with the dead, and without communion with the dead a fully human life is impossible.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Purpose of art Artists

Speaker

W.H. Auden

Source

Words and the Word

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Auden, W. H. "Words and the Word." Secondary Worlds. Random House, 1968. Originally a lecture given on Oct. 1967, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else.

John Updike

Quoted in Paris Review

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Artists Nature of art Art Creation

Speaker

John Updike

Source

Paris Review

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Updike, John. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, Issue 45, Winter 1968.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

H.L. Mencken

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Artists Originality Middle class respectability

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

Prejudices, First Series

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Artistic development Artists

Speaker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Progress of Culture

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Progress of Culture." Phi Beta Kappa society meeting. 18 July 1867, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK.

Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

Vitruvius

De Architectura

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Artistic development Artists

Author

Vitruvius

Source

De Architectura

Language

Latin

Time

70 BC 70s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

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Topic

Borrowing and creativity Creativity Artists

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Conversation avec Picasso." Interviewed by Christian Zervos. Cahiers d'Art, 1935.