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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make read more
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must read more
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
[It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]
