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Quotes about art
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“Art is the proper task of life.”
“In art the best is good enough.”
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”
“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”
“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”
“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.”
“Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”
“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”
“And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'”
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”