Saturday 12 January 2013

Art

1. Art for art's sake.
                                                                             -Victor Cousin

2. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
                                                                              -Dante, Inferno
 
3. A picture is a poem without words.
                                                                                         -Horace

4. Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
                                                                                  -Ben Jonson
    
5. Great art is as irrational as music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
                                                                    -George Jean Nathan,
                                                                        House of Satan

6. Its clever, but is it art?
                                                             -Kipling, The Conundrum
                                                                of the Workshops

7. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
                                                                        -M. P. Moussorgsky

8. Art is kind of illness.
                                                                          -Giacomo Puccini

9. Art is not the bread but the wine of life.
                                                                       -Jean Paul Richter  

10. Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
                                                                                        -Schiller

11. The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.
                                                                          -Alfred Tonnelle

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