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Letter "A" » Art
«Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
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Art
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comprehensible, journalist, precise, straight
«Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.»
«Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist»
«Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.»
Author: Auguste Rodin
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Art
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animated, contemplation, divines, divine spirit, searches
«Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.»
«Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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Art
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unconscious
«Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Art
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affirmation, affirmations, and the, art, blessing, deification, essentially, existence
«Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Art
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arcane, best-known, concealed, obvious, well known
«Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Art
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aspects, judgments, re-create, re-created, re-creation, recreate, recreates, recreating, represent, selective, value judgment
«Art is a jealous mistress.»
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