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«Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with whichto shape it.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht | About: Art | Keywords: hammer, held up
«Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | About: Art | Keywords: artists, attain
«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.»
«Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.»
«Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.»
«Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?»
«Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?»
«Art never comes from happiness.»
«Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Art, Speech, Truth | Keywords: damned, liar
«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.»

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