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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

by Jean Rostand Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; read more

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

by Claudia Lady Bird Johnson Found in: Art Quotes,
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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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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.

by George Santayana Found in: Art Quotes,
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Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

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Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

by Susanne Langer Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

by Pablo Picasso 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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His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Art Quotes,
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