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    The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
    music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
    significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
    uses.
    - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on read more

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

by Michael Vitale Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]

Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]

by Hippocrates Of Iphicrates Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Art Quotes,
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, read more

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Art Quotes,
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Art Quotes,
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A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.

by Al Capp Found in: Art Quotes,
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