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What Is Art Quotes

What is art? Prostitution.
- Charles Baudelaire

What is art but a way of seeing?
- Saul Bellow

What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
- Andre Dubus

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
- Aldous Huxley

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
- Rabindranath Tagore

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of lifelove and sacrifice.
- Andrei Tarkovsky

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