"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

Art, Desire, Man, Personality

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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

"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

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Art, Expression, Freedom, Creativity

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"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."

Dream, Dreams, Books, Words

"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."

Fire, Snow

"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."

Earth, Greed

"Youth condemns; maturity condones."

Age, Maturity, Youth

"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."

Man, Men, Now

"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."

Science, Literature

"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."

Heart, Fire, Moon, Want

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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."

"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."

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

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"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."

"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."

"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."

"Youth condemns; maturity condones."

"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."

"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."

"Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls."

"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."

"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."

"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."