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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
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.
Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!
Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its read more
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
uses.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking read more
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper read more
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]
