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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

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If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

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What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

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Mom used to frame everything we made, and now I'm following her example. It makes children so proud to see their work on display instead of hidden away. I figure if I take my children's work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

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Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

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