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    The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
    music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
    significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
    uses.
    - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

by Thomas Merton Found in: Art Quotes,
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer .

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer .

by Ansel Adams Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]

Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.
[Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]

by Hippocrates Of Iphicrates Found in: Art Quotes,
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In art, the obvious is a sin.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

by Edward Dmytryk Found in: Art Quotes,
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, read more

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Art Quotes,
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We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
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We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a
surplice peg,
We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an
addled egg.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by
the cart,
But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it
art?

by Rudyard Kipling Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

by Leonardo Da Vinci Found in: Art Quotes,
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

by Arthur Erickson Found in: Art Quotes,
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

by Evelyn Waugh Found in: Art Quotes,
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