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Art Quotes

• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassie're. At least, not in the English sense.But do not forget that brassie're is the French for life-jacket. Julian Patrick Barnes
• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. James Baldwin
• Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatique. Henri Matisse
• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Art is an attempt to escape from life. H. L. Mencken
• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Jasper Johns
• Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. George Beneward Shaw
• Art, "he continued, with a wave of the hand, "is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life." W. Somerset Maugham
• Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. Leo Tolstoy
• The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. Albert Camus