“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
— Ernst Fischer
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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
— Pablo Picasso
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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
— Philip Johnson
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“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
— Khalil Gibran
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“Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”
— Isadora Duncan
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“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.”
— David Frost
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“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
— Thomas Wolfe
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“A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!”
— Henry Fielding
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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
— Theodor Adorno
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