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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. -- Muriel Spark
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. -- Douglas Coupland
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. -- Max Eastman
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. -- Henry James
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. -- Gustave Flaubert
One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance. -- Piet Mondrian
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. -- Sun Tzu
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. -- Sol LeWitt
The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us. -- Piet Mondrian
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. -- Pauline Kael
We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. -- Ashton Kutcher
I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician. -- Steve Vai
Believe in the importance of your art. -- Theodora Goss
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. -- Henry James
the importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art -- Raja Ravi Varma
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. -- Pablo Picasso
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. -- Ordway Tead
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. -- Henri Matisse
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance. -- Fady Joudah
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
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is. -- John Ruskin
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. -- Henry James
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez. -- Joaquin Sorolla

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