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The art and
science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
-- Adolf Berle
1937-1971, American
Politician
The artist is
extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible
ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's
in business.
-- John Berryman
1914-1972, American Poet
The highest
art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is
always a devout person.
-- Professor Blackie
The great
artist is a slave to his ideals.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author,
Lawyer
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Art is the
only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped
hurting.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish
Novelist
The function
of art is to make that understood which in the form of
argument would be incomprehensible.
-- Constantin Brancusi
1876-1957, Romanian Sculptor
The work of
art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its
deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not
offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster
on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
-- Andre Breton
1989-1966, French Surrealist
What is art
but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating
up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres,
it pushes toward the intense significance of all things,
hungry for the infinite?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
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