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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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Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating read more

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make read more

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

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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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Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art

by Konstantin Stanislavsky Found in: Art Quotes,
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.

by Unknown 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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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

by Andrew Wyeth Found in: Art Quotes,
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Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.

by Mrs. Anna Jameson Found in: Art Quotes,
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Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

by Robert Musil Found in: Art Quotes,
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