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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.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit read more
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.rn
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.rn
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is the proper task of life.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn
Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis
Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis
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?