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    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?

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You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

by John Singer Sargent Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the read more

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

by Marshall Mcluhan Found in: Art Quotes,
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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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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.

by Andrew Wyeth Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is the proper task of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Art Quotes,
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite read more

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

by Alfred North Whitehead Found in: Art Quotes,
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

by Arthur Erickson Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

by George Luks Found in: Art Quotes,
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