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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Art

"Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers."

Art Mind Lying
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Carole King Singer-songwriter
Art

"I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film."

Art School New York
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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Art

"And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling."

Art Political Philosophy
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Cato the Younger Politician
Art

"Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]"

Thinking Art True Friend
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Bono Musician, Activist
Art

"If I don't understand it, it must be art."

Art Ifs
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Art

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

Art Life Freedom
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Art

"In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul"

Art Order Dark
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Art

"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."

Thinking Art Littles
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Art

"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy."

Art Hypocrisy Hypocrite
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Art

"‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."

People Art Brave New World
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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Art

"You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?"

People Art Night
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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Art

"Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books."

Art Real Dream
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August Wilson Playwright, Screenwriter
Art

"I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about."

Writing Art Cutting
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William Blake Poet, Painter
Art

"To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?"

Art Spiritual Bible
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