Quotes 121 till 140 of 1032.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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