"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."

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"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."

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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

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

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."

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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

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"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm."

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"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

Nature

"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."

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"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."

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"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."

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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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"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."

"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."

"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."

"Nature engenders the science of painting."