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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Drawing is the true test of art.
Drawing is the true test of art.
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.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
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.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must read more
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
[It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]
