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The noblest art is that of making others happy
P. T. Barnum
The highest form of expression is the act of bringing joy to others.
2.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
Vincent Van Gogh
Art is to soothe those who have been wounded by life.
3.
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
John Frusciante
Transforming what exists into
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
Alex Grey
6.
A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.
Macklemore
9.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
Oscar Wilde
12.
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
Keith Haring
14.
Art is doing something you really believe in.
Ray Toro
18.
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
Amiri Baraka
21.
What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.
Tracey Emin
22.
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
Dorothea Lange
23.
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
Sherwood Anderson
26.
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
Alice Neel
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Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.
Piet Mondrian
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Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.
Don Spencer
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In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.
Ruth Whitman
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The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.
Keith Haring
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Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Anselm Kiefer
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
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Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.
Antony Gormley
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Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
Max Ernst
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Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Marcel Duchamp
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Thomas Mann
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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Art is stronger than Nature
Titian
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
Robert Genn