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~ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~

~ Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? ~

~ Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. ~

~ Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~

~ Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. ~

~ Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. ~

~ A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. ~

~ The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. ~

~ If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ~

~ Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~

~ Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ~

~ Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~

~ True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ~

~ Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. ~

~ All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different. ~

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