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“Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.”
Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.”
Source: Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts
“When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”
Source: Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Source: Frida Kahlo
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions