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Art Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
- Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
- Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
- An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
- Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
- Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value…
- Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
- The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down…
- Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
- In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
- Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- Life isn't long enough for love and art.
- There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
- The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort…
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