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“Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.”

Giving Mean Art Succeed Art Is Impression Deception Artifice Deceitful

Author:Edgar Degas

“Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.”

Giving Art Flower Art Is Seeds Giving Back Flower Life

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.”

Giving Should Has Beens Art Influence Prove Art Is Rewards Prize Medal Jury Giving In Pernicious

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.”

People Want Giving Art Problem Research Art Is Contemporary Bother Contemporary Art

Author:Michael Scott

“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Ends Pain Joy Courses Levels Common Brain Known Fantasy Development Art Is Profession Personal Development Pursuit Common Sense Ugliness Diploma

Author:Robert Genn

“There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?”

Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well

“When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.”

Giving Art Sex Art Is Studios Damn

Author:Alice Neel