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Art

«Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.»
Author: Amy Lowell | About: Art | Keywords: reactions, world record
«Art is the elimination of the unnecessary»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art | Keywords: elimination, unnecessary
«Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.»
«Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.»
Author: Iris Murdoch (Novelist, Philosopher) | About: Art | Keywords: human soul
«Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.»
Author: John Donne | About: Art | Keywords: grasp, orgies, orgy, passionate
«Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color»
«Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art | Keywords: enables, lie, realize
«Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.»
«Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.»
Author: Milan Kundera (Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Art | Keywords: esthetic
«Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Art | Keywords: individualism, intense, mode