May 2013
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“Art hurts. Art urges voyages— and it is easier to stay at home.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.”
– David Hockney
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“What art offers is space— a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
– John Updike
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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of...”
– Henry James
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
– Emile Zola
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“Art is the proper task of life.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then...”
– John Lennon
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“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
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“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
– Orson Welles
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to...”
– Claude Monet
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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
– Samuel Johnson
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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
– Will Durant
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“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”
– Constatin Stanislavski
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“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
– Ad Reinhardt
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“Space is the breath of art.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
– Ernst Fischer
April 2013
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“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a...”
– William Morris
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“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
– Agnes Martin
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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas
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“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Only from art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
– Marcel Proust
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them,...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
– Stella Adler
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“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic...”
– Milan Kudera
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“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the...”
– Gustave Flaubert
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“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s...”
– Charlie Parker
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“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free...”
– John F. Kennedy
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“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
– Eugene Ionesco 