Art is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.
The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.
Art is a way of viewing things independently from the principle of sufficient reason.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art aims at impressing feelings on us rather than expressing them;
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Art repeats the eternal Ideas apprehended through pure contemplation, the essential and abiding element in all the phenomena of the world.
Art is science made clear.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Taste is good for wine lovers and cooks. Art has nothing to do with taste.
The mission of art is not to copy nature, but to express it!
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.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Nature is truth. Art is the highest truth.
All the arts are like mirrors in which the human beings know and recognize something of themselves they ignored.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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