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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.rn
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more
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.
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
Et le buste
Survit la cite.]
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
