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We all know
that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others
of the truthfulness of his lies.
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Art is a lie
that makes us realize the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Were I called
on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it
''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature
through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however
accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the
sacred name of ''Artist.''
-- Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet,
Critic, short-story Writer
The hidden
harmony is better than the obvious.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet,
Critic, Translator
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But the one
thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something
is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
Good art
however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art
can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true
witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
Humanity is
the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the
soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
A work of art
that contains theories is like an object on which the price
tag has been left.
-- Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist
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