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Quotations
On Art
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- The
perfection of art is to
conceal art.—Quintilian.
- Creativity
is allowing yourself
to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. —Scott Adams
- Art
must
anchor in nature, or
it is the sport of every breath of folly.—Hazlitt.
- Beauty
is
at once the ultimate
principle and the highest aim of art.—Goethe.
- Painting
is just another way
of keeping a diary.—Pablo Picasso
- Art is
indeed not the bread
but the wine of life.—Jean Paul Richter.
- He
that
seeks popularity in
art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other
minds, and not for his own.—Mrs. Jameson.
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- Art
does
not imitate, but interpret.—Mazzini.
- Art is
the
gift of God, and
must be used unto his glory.—Longfellow.
- I
don't
paint things.
I only paint the difference between things.—Henri Matisse.
There
was an old
sculptor named Phidias,
Whose
knowledge of Art
was invidious.
He carved
Aphrodite
Without any
nightie—
Which
startled the purely
fastidious.
—Gilbert K.
Chesterton.
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