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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
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Art is the path of the creator to his work.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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