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  • Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Alvarez Quotes , Art Quotes , Imagination Quotes
  • Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Real Quotes
  • Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Sex Quotes