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Art Is Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- 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, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value…
- Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
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