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“The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.”

Art Lying Artist Art Is Roots Sincerity Insincerity

Author:Quentin Bell

“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”

Art Lying Values Art Is Weakness Clouds Grass Works Of Art Brotherhood Static Evanescence

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.”

Ifs Art Lying Behinds Divine Art Is Inner Beauty

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”

Firsts Has Beens Art Lying Art Is Crosses Males Works Of Art Strokes Erotic Penetrate Ornaments Vertical Horizontal Lying Down

Author:Adolf Loos

“Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.”

Looks Art Different Dream Lying Art Is Capacity Mirrors Expensive Scandalous

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.”

Art Hands Lying Art Is Harvest Recuperation

Author:R. S. Thomas

“You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.”

Way Art Bigs Lying Dark Painting Masters Art Is Bigger Isolated Viewers Painting A Picture Dark Art

Author:Bill Whittle

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.”

Art Stills Country Seems Lying Passion Special Dying Benefits Art Is Organization Patient All Time Grants Providence Sensibility Shields Invincible Contemplative

Author:George Sand

“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”

World Art Lying Ability Worst Art Is Telling The Truth Worst Things Profanity

Author:Richard Pryor

“A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.”

Want Doe Has Beens Art Lying Highest Art Is Concern Mere Appearance Aliens Hostile Great Art

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche