 | "[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
- Al Capp
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| "Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
- Ambrose Bierce
, The Devil's Dictionary. |
| "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
- Amy Lowell
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| "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
- Andre Gide
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| "Let each man exercise the art he knows."
- Aristophanes
, Wasps, 422 B.C. |
| "I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none."
- Ben Shahn
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| "So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering."
- Brenda Ueland
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| "I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
- Duke Ellington
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| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
- E. M. Forste
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| "Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
- Edith Wharton
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