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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.
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.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
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As all Nature's thousands changes
But one changeless God proclaim;
So in Art's wide kingdom ranges
One sole meaning still the same:
This is Truth, eternal Reason,
Which from Beauty takes its dress,
And serene through time and season
Stands aye in loveliness.
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.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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.
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by read more
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some relationship.
[Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent
quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se
continentur.]