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“Art is the escape from personality.”

Art Personality Art Is

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.”

Art Purpose Roles Personality Art Is Overcoming

Author:T. S. Eliot

“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Artist Freedom Personality Art Is Instinct Passionate Painter Works Of Art Sensations Restraint Caricatures Copying

Author:Maurice Denis

“The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”

World Art Quality Vision Personality Art Is Method Endure Transient Personal Vision

Author:Edward Hopper

“Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.”

Thinking Knows Art Said Character Wanted Artist Personality Art Is Court Eliot

Author:Lucian Freud

“Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.”

Art Belief Personality Art Is Pushing Broadcasting

Author:Holland Cotter

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

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Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.”

Humans Art Language Personality Art Is Intellect Human Personality Paraphrasing

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”

Art Real Spiritual Artist Born Existence Subjects Creation Personality Art Is Breaths Independent Mysterious Acquire Works Of Art Mystical Animated Serendipity Autonomous Enigmatic

Author:Wassily Kandinsky