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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso






I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin






We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso / 






Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde






Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton






Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw






In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Auguste Rodin






Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller






Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci






Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Charles Baudelaire / 






All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac






To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire






Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac






You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert






The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle






The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin






It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire






Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon






We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde






All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde






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.
Albert Camus






Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo






Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky






There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso






Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert






Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde ? - Quotation of uncertain origin










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