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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking read more
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned read more
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art
Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.
Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
