#great art

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass. ↗

— Joe Murray

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I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

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Great art picks up where nature ends. ↗

— Marc Chagall

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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. ↗

— James Huneker

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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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