Quotes 761 till 780 of 1032.
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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
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The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
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The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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