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Marcel Proust

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature." — Marcel Proust
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art." — Edgar Quinet
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"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture." — Tom Stoppard
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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process." — Henry James
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Wilson Mizner

"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found." — Wilson Mizner
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Susan Sontag

"Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals." — Susan Sontag
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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination." — George Nathan
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"Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?" — Nadine Gordimer
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"Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?" — George Woodberry
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Edward Koch

"The art of creation is older than the art of killing." — Edward Koch
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Susan Sontag

"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it." — Susan Sontag
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." — Alfred Whitehead
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Personality is everything in art and poetry." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Pablo Picasso

"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not." — Pablo Picasso
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"As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth." — Stephen Bayley
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