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«What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.»
«What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures [but] that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.»
«What is art but a way of seeing?»
«What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
essential, mankind, personal, Personal life, poet, realm, rise, The Spirit, work of art
«What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Balance,
Dreams
| Keywords:
armchair, armchairs, calming, depressing, devoid, devoid of, fatigue, relaxation, serenity, soothing, subject matter, troubling
«What is art? Nature concentrated.»
«What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Call of, creative, Of Man, response, The Call
«What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
distinguishes, industry, sensibilities, sensibility, tenderness
«What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.»
«What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.»
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