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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Art, Sadness, Wings

  Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Art is the objectification of feeling.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  "Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4, 1967.

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Past, Land

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.74, Best Books on

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• We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Truth, Creative

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

  John Ciardi

  Girl, Art, Sex

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• Art is anything people do with distinction.

  Louis Dudek

  Art, People, Distinction

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• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  Harry S. Truman

  Art, Criticism, Constructive Criticism

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• Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

  Aristotle

  Art, States, Capacity

  Aristotle (2007). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.143, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

  James Dickey

  Art, Lying, Nerves

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• Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Made

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Get Away, Artist

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• Art is born of humiliation.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Born, Humiliation

  In Stephen Spender World Within World (1951) ch. 2

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• Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Science, Technology

  Le Jour et la Nuit: Cahiers 1917 - 52 (1952)

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  Quintilian

  Art, Perfection, Design

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• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Freedom, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

  Aristotle

  Art, Artist, Concerned

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

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• Life is short and art is long.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Life Is Short, Long

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• All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Life, Spiritual, Art

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Priesthood, Pastime

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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  Paul Getty

  Art, Real, Tragedy

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• The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Principles, Bypass

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Passing By: Selected Essays, 1962-1991”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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