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“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.”

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Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.”

Men Mean Art Evil Art Is Chaotic

Book:Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

“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.”

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Author:Edgar Degas

“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.”

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Book:Bourgeois

Source: Bourgeois

“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

Mean Art Soul Ends Difficult Imagination Students Art Is Fundamentals Technique

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.”

Mean Art Earth Grows Understanding Our Lives Expression Understood Art Is Texture

Author:Rufino Tamayo

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”