“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
— Louis Kahn
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“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
— Walt Whitman
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“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”
— Paracelsus
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“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”
— Mason Cooley
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“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”
— Paul Klee
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“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
— Remy de Gourmont
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“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
— Thomas Mann
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“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
— Al Capp
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“It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.”
— Ezra Pound
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“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”
— Edgard Varese
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
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