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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
Virginia Woolf
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.
C.S. Lewis
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
Susan Sontag
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Charles Dickens
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Jane Austen
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Nadine Gordimer
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo
Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Jerry Saltz
