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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is the proper task of life.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must read more
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his
master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
[It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,
Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;
Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
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.
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to read more
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on read more
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
