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title: "6 Necessity Art Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/art-is-much-less-important-than-life-but-what-a-poor-life-without-it/)

[Robert Motherwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-motherwell/)

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> [It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/it-may-be-that-the-deep-necessity-of-art-is-the-examination-of-self/)

[Robert Motherwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-motherwell/)

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> [Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/fertilization-of-the-soul-is-the-reason-for-the-necessity-of-art/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/it-may-be-that-the-deep-necessity-of-art-is-the-examination-of/)

[Robert Motherwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-motherwell/)

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> [The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolai-berdyaev/the-essential-in-artistic-creativity-is-victory-over-the-burden-of/)

[Nikolai Berdyaev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolai-berdyaev/)

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> [To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/to-contradict-even-in-little-matters-is-the-supreme-necessity-of-art/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

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