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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Art Quotes , Science Quotes

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Vision Quotes

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Morning Quotes

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Father Quotes

My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Essentials Quotes

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Art Quotes

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

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