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“Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.”

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Author:Antoni Tapies

“There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.”

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Author:Peter Capaldi

“Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.”

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Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.”

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Author:Invader

“We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.”

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Author:Kenneth Clark

“Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.”

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Book:The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys

Source: The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.”

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Author:e. e. cummings

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

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Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge