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Artful Expressions
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| All art is a revolt against man's fate. |
| - Andre' Malraux |
| Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of men. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| We must never forget that art is not a form a propaganda, it is a form of truth. |
| - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Art is a form of catharsis. |
| - Dorothy Parker |
| The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation |
| - Hilton Kramer |
| Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. |
| - Amy Lowell |
| As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. |
| - John Dewey |
| If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. |
| - Mrs. Pablo Picasso |
| Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
| Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. |
| - E. C. Stedman |
| In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. |
| - Theodore Dreiser |
| Art is the collaboration between God and the Artist, and the less the artist does the better. |
| - Andre' Gide |
| The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
| Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. |
| - William Butler Yeats |
| Art, like morality, consist in drawing the line somewhere. |
| - Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| If Art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. |
| - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. |
| - George Jean Nathan |
| The course of Nature is the art of God. |
| - Edward Young |
| Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, aqrchitecture, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. |
| - Michelangelo |
| Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. |
| - Andre' Maurois |
| Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality |
| - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| There is no such thing as modern art. There is art-and there is advertising. |
| - Albert Sterner |
| Perpetual moderness is the measure of merit in every work of art. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds. |
| - Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. |
| - George Santanyana |
| To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. |
| - Thomas A. Edison |