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Art Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds…
- Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works…
- The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we…
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
- A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,…
- A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
- I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first…
- Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially…
- Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov