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Quotes about art
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.”
“All good art is an indiscretion.”
“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
“Art is the objectification of feeling.”
“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
“If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.”
“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
“Art seduces, but does not exploit.”
“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”
“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.”
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”
“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”