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“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

Knows Men Art Artist Strength Exercise Art Is Life Changing

Book:Aristophanes

Source: Aristophanes

“Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.”

Men Way Humans Art Fighting Art Is

Author:Leonard Baskin

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.”

Men Art Higher Ordinary Art Is

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.”

Men Art Said Shows Artist Streets Art Is Afghanistan Graffiti Street Art

Author:Malina Suliman

“Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.”

Men Art Made Art Is Interpreter

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.”

“The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.”

Men Art States Found Individual Levels Secret Creation Return Art Is Artistic Participation Effectiveness Mystique Artistic Creation

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.”

Ifs Men Art Action Values Teach Humility Art Is Tolerance Value Of Life Right Action Magnanimity Great Value

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“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

“A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.”

Men Heart Art Eye Form Brain Art Is Works Of Art Nerves Interiors

Author:Edvard Munch