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    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.

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any
end, is art.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any
end, is art.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

by Dante ("dante Alighieri") Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

by Beverly Sills Found in: Art Quotes,
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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

by Gertrude Stein Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.

Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.

by Suzanne Langer Found in: Art Quotes,
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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?

by Rudyard Kipling Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

by Edgar Degas Found in: Art Quotes,
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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

by Edward Hopper Found in: Art Quotes,
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