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Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot read more
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.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating read more
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.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper read more
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
