“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.” — Baltasar Gracian
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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson | #Art
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” — William Butler Yeats | #Art
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” — William Butler Yeats
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham | #Art
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” — Alfred North Whitehead | #Art
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” — Alfred North Whitehead
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.” — Duke Ellington | #Art
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.” — Duke Ellington
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” — John Updike | #Art
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.” — John Updike
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.” — William Morris Hunt | #Art
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.” — William Morris Hunt
“An art book is a museum without walls.” — Andre Malraux | #Art
“An art book is a museum without walls.” — Andre Malraux
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.” — Wilson Mizner | #Art
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.” — Wilson Mizner
