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• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Age, Art, Honesty, Truth

  Tags in Time, Writing, Change, Men, Creativity, Book, Books

• Life is serious but art is fun

  John Irving

  Topics in Art, Life
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  Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Art, Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Heart, Mind

• When I am finishing a picture I hold some G-d-made object up to it – arock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it is bad art.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Art

• Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Art

• An artist must know how to convince others of the truth of his lies.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

• Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art, Truth

  Tags in Least, Us, Given, Understand, Realize, Makes, Lie, Know

• Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

  Paul Klee

  Topics in Art

• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Corpse, Innovation, Tradition, Without, Sheep, Shepherd, Flock

• The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don’t have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn’t resemble art in any way.

  Jim Benton

  Topics in Art

• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

  Gustav Mahler

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Consists, Conducting, Transitions, Real

• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Art

• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint Gaudens

  Topics in Art

• Art is I; Science is We.

  Claude Bernard

  Topics in Art

• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Topics in Art

• Art is man added to nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Art

• What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint Gaudens

  Topics in Art

• Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Topics in Art, Vision

• 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

  Topics in Art, Society

  Tags in Decaying, Truthful

• What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment theshining elusive element which is life itself–life hurrying past us andrunning away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

   

  Willa Sibert Cather

  Topics in Art