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Drawing is the true test of art.

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.