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Art Is Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
- Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has…
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable…
- Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the…
- The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,…
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
- Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all…
- The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
- Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause…
- Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of…
- Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
More Art Is Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. — Christian Bale
- The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. — Lester Bangs
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
- Art is an attempt to integrate evil. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect… — Beck
- Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell