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Art

«Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.»
Author: Edith Hamilton (Author, Educator) | About: Art | Keywords: without expression
«Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.»
Author: Kathe Kollwitz | About: Art, Artists, Genius
«Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.»
«Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.»
Author: Mary Schmich | About: Art, Diversity | Keywords: angles, emerge
«Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.»
«God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.»
«Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.»
«For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication»
«Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: pre-eminently, preeminently
«Give me a museum and I'll fill it.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art | Keywords: museum