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1. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. – Lincoln Steffens
2. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Pablo Picasso
3. Art is a faithful mirror of the life and civilization of a period. – Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. – M. P. Mussorgsky
5. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
6. Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. – Jean Paul Richter
7. Art is difficult, transient is her reward. – Schiller
8. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy
9. Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it. – Vladimir Mayakovski
10. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – A. N. Whitehead
11. Art hath an enemy called ignorance. – Ben Jonson
12. Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. – George Jean Nathan
13. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin
14. Abstract truth may belong to science and metaphysics, but the world of reality belongs to Art. – Rabindranath Tagore
15. The object of art is to give life a shape. – Jean Anouilh
16. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild. – Dante
17. Art is either a revolutionist or a plagiarist. – Paul Gauguin
18. Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. – Alfred North Whitehead
19. Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard
20. All art is but imitation of nature. – Seneca
21. A picture is a poem without words. – Horace
22. Art lies in concealing art. – Ovid
23. Art is long and time is fleeting. – Longfellow
24. Art does not imitate but interprets. – Mazzini
25. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Simonides |
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