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An artist must
be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of
the age and not go flopping along.
-- Evelyn Waugh
1903-1966, British Novelist
Art is the
symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to
refrain from destruction.
-- Simone Weil
1910-1943, French
Philosopher, Mystic
Most works of
art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district
of their fabrication.
-- Rebecca West
1892-1983, British Author
Art is the
imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic
enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
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Art, like
Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with
hideous voices.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
Bad art is a
great deal worse than no art at all.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
Bad artists
always admire each other's work. They call it being
large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great
artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty
fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has
selected.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
In a very ugly
and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from
each other.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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