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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
Author:
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No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.
Author:
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: The Ring and the Book--The Book and the Ring (l. 842)
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A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.
Author: Al Capp
Source: referring to abstract art, in the "National Observer", July 1, 1963
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All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some relationship.
[Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent
quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se
continentur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (I)
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Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
[It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (XI, 103)
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Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (XI, 103)
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an
art of writing.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Character (ch. XI)
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All passes, Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust out-lasts the throne,--
The coin, Tiberius.
Author: Henry Austin Dobson
Source: Ars Victrix, imitated from Theophile Gautier
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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any
end, is art.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Society and Solitude--Art
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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
Et le buste
Survit la cite.]
Author: Theophile Gautier
Source: L'Art
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As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands aye in loveliness.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Travels (ch. XIV)
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His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Retaliation (l. 139)
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The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 137)
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The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a
comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose
within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator;
and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth
spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and
which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in
reference to the proposed result.
Author: John Mason Good
Source: The Book of Nature (series I, lecture IX)
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Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
Author: Hippocrates of Iphicrates
Source: Aphorismi (I, Nobilissimus Medicus)
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
uses.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
Source: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects--Art and Life
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. 23, l. 382), (Pope's translation)
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (9)
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Drawing is the true test of art.
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (9)
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Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
Author: Mrs. Anna Jameson
Source: Memoirs and Essays--The House of Titian
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Every Man Out of his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: The Conundrum of the Workshops
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification
of nature.
Author: Susanne K. Langer
Source: Mind (vol. I)
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Author: Francis Vincent “Frank” Zappa, Jr.
Source: None
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Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis
Author: Hippocrates
Source: None
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Author: Paul Klee
Source: None
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Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
Author: Susanne Langer
Source: None
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Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.
Author: Suzanne Langer
Source: None
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Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!
Author: George Luks
Source: None
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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.
Author: Marshall McLuhan
Source: None
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Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Source: None
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Source: None
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Art is the proper task of life.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Author: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Source: None
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Author: Walter Pater
Source: None
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Source: None
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Author: François Auguste René Rodin
Source: None
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: None
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
Author: Daisetz Teitaro 'D.T.' Suzuki
Source: None
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
Author: Twyla Tharp
Source: None
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
Author: Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy
Source: None
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Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
Author: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Source: None
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Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
Author: William Butler Yeats
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