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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
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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 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 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 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 imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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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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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
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