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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Category: Art

Author: Boris Pasternak

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Since reality is incomplete, art must not be too much afraid of incompleteness.

Category: Art

Author: Iris Murdoch

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Category: Art

Author: Paul Gauguin

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Category: Art

Author: Frank Lloyd Wright

Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.

Category: Art

Author: William Saroyan

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Category: Art

Author: Charles Baudelaire

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

Category: Art

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Category: Art

Author: Iris Murdoch

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Category: Art

Author: Jean Cocteau

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Category: Art

Author: Jean Cocteau

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The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Author: Charles Reade
Category: Absence

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