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Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring read more
Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else
Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.
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.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit read more
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.
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
[Fr., L'Art supreme
Seule a l'eternite
Et le buste
Survit la cite.]
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite read more
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
