“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
— George Santayana
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I just wish the crowd I was
“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”
— Shia LaBeouf
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Art is parasitic on life, just as
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
— Harry S. Truman
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
— John Ruskin
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The perfection of art is to conceal
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
— Quintilian
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Some painters transform the sun into a
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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Teachers believe they have a gift for
“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the
“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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The art of life is to know
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
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