“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”
— Andre Maurois
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Film will only became an art when
“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
— Jean Cocteau
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is
“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of
“Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.”
— George Jean Nathan
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At the beginning of the 20th century,
“At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.”
— Brian Eno
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
— Albert Camus
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The knowledge of God is the cause
“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”
— Thomas Aquinas
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What the mass media offers is not
“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
— W. H. Auden
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition,
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Painting is just another way of keeping
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Art is the lie that enables us
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
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