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Quotes about art
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“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
“Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.”
“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”
“I paint with shapes.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“All art is quite useless.”
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”
“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”