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Quotes about art
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“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
“It's clever, but is it Art?”
“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.”
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
“My trade and art is to live.”