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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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Charles Baudelaire

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Michelangelo

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
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Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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A picture is a poem without words.
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Horace

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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Eugene Ionesco

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Marcel Proust

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Al Capp

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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Marshall Mcluhan

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All art is an imitation of nature.
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Seneca

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All art is quite useless.
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Oscar Wilde

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Willem De Kooning

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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Andy Warhol

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
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James Thurber

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Jean-Luc Godard

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Jacques Barzun

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

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Yu Cao

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.
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Ben Johnson

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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John Updike

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Art is a form of catharsis.
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Dorothy Parker

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
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Jean Arp

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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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Pablo Picasso

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
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Lindsay Anderson

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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
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Anthony Burgess

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun