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“The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
Oscar Wilde
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people”
Vincent van Gogh
“Art never expresses anything but itself.”
“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no must in art because art is free”
Wassily Kandinsky
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”
Jules Feiffer
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources”
Benjamin Franklin
