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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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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 founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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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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