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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 to it.

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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its read more

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 attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

by Alfred North Whitehead Found in: Art Quotes,
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Art Quotes,
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The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Art Quotes,
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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Art Quotes,
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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

by Andrew Wyeth Found in: Art Quotes,
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper read more

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]

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Art is the proper task of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Art Quotes,
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Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

by Robert Musil Found in: Art Quotes,
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