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Art

«There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through»
«There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.»
Author: Emile Zola (Activist, Critic, Novelist) | About: Art | Keywords: craftsman, Inside the
«The painting has a life of its own.»
Author: Jackson Pollack | About: Art
«There is nothing new in art except talent.»
Author: Anton Chekhov | About: Art, Talent
«There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.»
«There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art»
«There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.»
«There are three arts which are concerned with all things; one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Art | Keywords: arts, concerned, imitates, uses
«There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Art, Business | Keywords: regale, regaled, regaling
«The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.»
Author: Tennessee Williams | About: Art