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All very good quotes but this one is perfect and priceless.

"Beauty is lost in life, but is immortal in Art."

I like the one of Auguste Rodin best! Very nice

I too really like the Borges quote..helps you to re-evaluate your viewpoint.

I also like this quote:

"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."

~~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Thanks for the quotes!

Your quotes are all excellent.

They reveal the artist transforming the finite into the infinite, the material into the spiritual.

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Here are some other quotes you may like:

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Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed or governed their Passions or have NO Passions, but because they have cultivated their Understandings.
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-- William Blake, /A Vision Of The Last Judgment/, 1810

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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785

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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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-- Emerson, /Journals/, 1831

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The truest virtues are supererogatory: compassion not toward the good but toward the wicked, generosity towards the ungrateful, fidenity without formal commitment
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-- Thornton Wilder, /The Eighth Day/, p. 168

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Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest way.
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-- Stanislaw Lec, /Unkempt Thoughts/, 1962, tr. Jacek Galazka

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
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-- Emerson, "History", /Essays: First Series/, 1841

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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-- Victor Hugo, "Fautine", /Les Miserables/, 1862, 7.3, tr., Charles E. Wilbour

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We live in this world when we love it.
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-- Rabindranath Tagore, /Stray Birds/, 1916, 278

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll, /Prose Poems and Selections/, 1884

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A good man in an exclusive heaven would be in hell.
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-- Elbert Hubbard, /The Philistine/, 1895-1915

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God seeks comrades and claims love; the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
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-- Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928

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There are none so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
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-- Goethe

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset, "To the Reader", /Meditations on Quixote/, 1914

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That which the fascists hate above all else is intelligence.
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-- Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936, great Spanish philosopher, poet, and patriot)

woow...NZ your a quote machine!

Originally posted by EasyD44:

woow...NZ your a quote machine!

I think I overdid it!

I just noticed the maxim in your header:

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Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
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Very good! It reminds me of something I wrote in my essay on proprioception:

http://my.opera.com/NonZionist/blog/2009/12/05/proprioception
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[W]e are imagining feelings and emotions, not pictures. We know when this "tactile imagination" matches physical reality, because we feel a change, a release of tension or a return of feeling to a dead area.
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-- "Proprioception / Imagination is required", 05 Dec 2009

Hello Henar --

It was nice of you to look at the essay. I hope it can be helpful.

-- NZ!

Imagenes para hi5
Felices fiestas,Henar.

Here's another quote about art:

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What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
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-- Amedeo Modigliani

I found it here:

http://my.opera.com/PainterWoman/blog/

Anonymous writes: I used your quote on my blog, with reference back to your blog. Thank you. Loveable-lerwills.blogspot.com

Art has become a common language crossing borders between countries...religions...

Anonymous writes: the best quote about art to me is : the true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection-Michelangelo!