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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? -- Bernard Berenson
The value of art is in the observer. -- Agnes Martin
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. -- George Jean Nathan
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. -- Edward Hopper
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. -- Thomas A. Edison
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. -- Georg Cantor
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. -- Jean Cocteau
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. -- Camille Pissarro
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. -- Howard Rheingold
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. -- Milan Kundera
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. -- Joshua Reynolds
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -- C. S. Lewis
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. -- Robert Wilson
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. -- Julian Barnes
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. -- Wyndham Lewis
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. -- Rockwell Kent
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. -- Camille Paglia
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. -- Robert Pinsky
I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful. -- April Gornik
My art has gained some high value. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
The translation called good has original value as a work of art. -- Benedetto Croce
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. -- Robert Longo
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. -- Eleanora Duse
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. -- Roger Scruton
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself. -- Irving Stone
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. -- Ayn Rand
The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it. -- Jeffrey Loria
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... -- Andre Breton
Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten. -- Jan Swafford
When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity. -- Woody Allen
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be. -- Selima Hill
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. -- Karen Armstrong
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. -- Odilon Redon
The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done. -- Thomas Koerfer
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[A personÂ?s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. -- David Hume
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. -- Neal Cassady
I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract. -- Francis Schaeffer
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. -- Campbell McGrath
Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. -- Philip Kotler
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value. -- W. Eugene Smith
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. -- Myrtle Aydelotte
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. -- Robert Henri
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value. -- Charles Gates, Jr.
I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting. -- Tristan Tzara
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. -- Andre Malraux
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. -- John Guare

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