"In art the best is good enough."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Art, Experience, Criticism, Now

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Art, Creativity, Truth, Power, Life

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Lying, Beauty, Truth

"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Individual, Goodness, Commonplace

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Life, Imitation, Reality

"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Art, Blood, Strength, Creativity

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Ugly, Beauty, Charm, Morality

"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Artist, Creation, Beauty, Criticism

"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Art, Dance, Music, Body

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

Voltaire, French Writer

Art, Government, Nation

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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."

Decision

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

Contentment

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

Philosophy

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

Perception

"For in music there is no material to be deducted."

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"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

Psychology

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."

"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"Colors are light's suffering and joy."

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

"For in music there is no material to be deducted."

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."