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    Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

by Alfred Sisley Found in: Art Quotes,
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All art requires courage.

All art requires courage.

by Anne Tucker Found in: Art Quotes,
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

by Twyla Tharp Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

by Harvey Fierstein 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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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper read more

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]

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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),

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

by Federico Fellini Found in: Art Quotes,
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