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“Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.”

Art Play Games Duty Art Is

Author:Max Jacob

“It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.”

Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

“I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.”

Ifs Thinking Art Joy Careers Duty Amount Art Is Small Amounts

Author:Sarah Kay

“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.”

Feels Mean Has Beens Art Stills Past Alive Modern Duty Art Is Function Communicate Liberated

Author:Antony Gormley

“The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.”

Men Firsts Art Duty Art Is Privilege Every Man

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.”

Art Law Duty Kings Art Is Maintenance

Author:Martin Luther

“Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total duty of loyalty. Love, lusciousness, birth and fertility are precise tools of art, like laws.”

Art Important Duty Birth Art Is Perfection Loyalty Mature Relevant

Author:Jonathan Meese