Meaning Of Art Quotes

• Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Artist, Sensations

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• To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Helping, Share

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• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Lying, People

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• The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and at the same time opening their heart. Through sharing my pain I can possibly heal your pain, there is no other feeling like it, money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of Art. I will attempt to do it till my dying day.

  Richard Cabral

  Art, Pain, Feelings

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Travel, Journey

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Mean, Order

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• Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Real

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ifs

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