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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true art of memory is the art of attention. -- Samuel Johnson
I believe that true art is universal in its appeal. -- John McCormack
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. -- Jerzy Kosinski
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed. -- Jose Bergamin
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. -- Odilon Redon
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it. -- Baz Luhrmann
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. -- Truman Capote
true apothecary thy drugs art quick -- William Shakespeare
True art consists in concealing art. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation -- Hafez
Drawing is the true test of art. -- Horace
Hip-hop is the last true folk art. -- Mos Def
True art is reverent imitation of God. -- Tryon Edwards
Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. -- Hakim Bey
Thou art true and honest as a dog. -- Sir John Davies
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy. -- Louise Bogan
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True art lies in a reality that is felt. -- Odilon Redon
Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling. -- Caspar David Friedrich
Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true. -- Jack White
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. -- Mason Cooley
The true masters of the art of living are already happy... -- Jean Anouilh
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. -- Giannina Braschi
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. -- Michelangelo
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science. -- William Blake
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -- Michelangelo
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. -- E. F. Schumacher
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. -- Emile M. Cioran
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations. -- Unarine Ramaru
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. -- George Sand
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. -- John Marin
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. -- George Inness
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. -- Yann Martel
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. -- Adam Phillips
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. -- Henri Matisse
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. -- James A. Garfield
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. -- Piet Mondrian
Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true. -- Orrin Woodward
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. -- Roger Scruton
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. -- Albert Einstein
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. -- Aristotle
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. -- J. G. Stedman
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. -- J. G. Stedman
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. -- Isaac Asimov
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. -- Sri Chinmoy
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness? -- Willa Cather
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. -- Ben Jonson
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. -- Anna Deavere Smith
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. -- Alexander Pope
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected. -- Josh Groban
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. -- Albert Camus
The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion, -- George Inness
Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work. -- William Holden
Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch. -- Amy Harmon
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. -- William Rounseville Alger
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. -- Tiffany Madison
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. -- Agnes Repplier
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. -- Jean-Francois Millet
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it. -- St. Lucia
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. -- Franz Grillparzer
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. -- Julia Cameron
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. -- Leonid Afremov
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. -- Patti Smith
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. -- Charles Darwin
When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart. -- Waylon Jennings
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. -- James Altucher
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself. -- Robert Schumann
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art, -- Daniel Alarcon
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. -- Bronislaw Huberman
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else. -- Franz Kafka
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. -- Neil Gaiman
. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it. -- Lester Bangs
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being. -- Mervyn Levy
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. -- Isaac Asimov
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. -- George Henry Lewes
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. -- Ved Mehta
It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art. -- Walter J. Phillips
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing. -- Samuel Hahnemann
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. -- David O. McKay
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there. -- Paul Bourget
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity. -- Lana Del Rey
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. -- Lafcadio Hearn
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true. -- Arnaud Desplechin
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears. -- Marcel Proust
True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse -- Pat Martino
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the road. -- Gottfried Leibniz
As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art. -- Mat Kearney
Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers -- Daniel Clowes
With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive. -- Rosa Luxemburg
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience. -- John Gardner

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