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My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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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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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 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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All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Great art picks up where nature ends. ↗

— Marc Chagall

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. ↗