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“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”

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Book:The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats

“Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.”

Art Values Lost Differences Theory Art Is Analysis Butterfly Pins Meadows Fluttering Like A Butterfly

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.”

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Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis

“Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.”

People Want Art Facts Stories Form Opinion Mankind Art Is Storytelling Analysis Primitive Kind People

Author:Lee Gutkind

“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”

Art Light Science Vision Art Is Analysis Awe Synthesis Seeing The Light

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.”

Art Style Art Is Finals Various Analysis Representation

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader