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Art
«Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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all the same, exuberantly, irrational, pointless, puritan, Puritans, wonderfully
«Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability»
«Art is pattern informed by sensibility.»
Author: Sir Herbert Read
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informed, informing, informs, pattern, patterned, sensibilities, sensibility
«Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.»
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
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integrates, omnipotent, profane, realm, renounces
«Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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dictum, heretical, on the side, oppressed, oppressors, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, simplistic
«Art is science made clear.»
Author: Wilson Mizner
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Art
«Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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alongside, conquest, imitation, in truth, placed, supplement, supplements, thereof
«Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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application, beyond measure, canon, canons, conceive, instinct, limbs, measuring, The Brain