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Great art is
never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be
worth the effort.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
Art is the
signature of civilizations.
-- Beverly Sills
American Opera Singer
The vitality
of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it
arouses.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American
Essayist, Aphorist
Not everything
has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1918-, Russian Novelist
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Much of modern
art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is
terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not
bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful,
or embarrassing, art changes morals.
-- Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
The
contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which
doesn't make enough difference to the people of that
generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
-- Gertrude Stein
1874-1946, American Author
What is Art?
It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the
Real.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941, Indian Poet,
Philosopher
Art -- the one
achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all
fours seem well advised.
-- James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist,
Illustrator
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