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by bookofjoe 651 days ago
'Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealised ends.' — Aristotle (284-322 BC)

'The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.' — Michelangelo (1475-1564)

'Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.' — Goethe (1749-1832)

'A work of art is a corner of nature seen through a temperament.' — Emile Zola (1840-1929)

'Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.' — Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

'Art is science made clear.' — Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

'Art is anything you can get away with.' — Andy Warhol (1928-1987)