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Art
«Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Art,
Creativity
| Keywords:
real world, The Real World
«Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.»
«Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.»
«Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
activity, human activity, risen, transmission
«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, duties, embitter, embittered, embitters, fetter, fettered, in fetters, jealous, mistress, painting, provider, providers, season
«Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Architecture,
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, jealous, mistress, provider, providers