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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw / 






Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven






Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso






There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
Gustave Flaubert






The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso






The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Gustave Flaubert






Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso






The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci






Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso






Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert






Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo






The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso






For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
Edvard Munch






He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Dürer






Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes






A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire






Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus






For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus






In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson






Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde






Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer






Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire






Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald






Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx






Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert










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