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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
 The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and 
music are but the blazon of its read more 
 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), 
Art is running away without ever leaving home.
Art is running away without ever leaving home.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn
 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. 
 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? 
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring read more
Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
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.