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| Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. | | Frank Zappa | |
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| Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. | | Rita Mae Brown | |
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which
to shape it. | | Bertolt Brecht | |
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| Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. | | John Ruskin | |
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| Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 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 | |
| Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. | | Harry S Truman | |
| Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. | | Theodor W. Adorno | |
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| Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
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| Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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