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• "All art is quite useless."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier, Raphael (st. 8)
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• "The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences."
  By: William Whewell
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• "A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it."
  By: Simone Weil
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• "It was Homer who gave laws to the artist."
  By: Francis D.D. Wayland, The Iliad and the Bible
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• "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight."
  By: Henry Watton
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• "I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell."
  By: Vincent van Gogh
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• "It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art."
  By: Marguerite de Valois
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• "A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created."
  By: Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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• "To evoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movement, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others experience the same feeling--this is the activity of art."
  By: Leo Tolstoy (Count Lev Tolstoi)
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• "He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."
  By: James Thurber
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• "It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look . . . To affect the quality of the day--that is the highest of arts."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light."
  By: Esaias Tegner
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• "The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the poet in liberal art."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art."
  By: Susan Sontag
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