"The true function of art is to criticize,……" — H. L. Mencken

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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
• Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — 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… — Aristotle
• I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
• I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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