Memorable Art Quotes About Culture

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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
Thomas Wolfe
"Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of ours."
Wassily Kandinsky
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it."
Leon Trotsky
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
Pablo Picasso
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
George Bernard Shaw
"Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Thomas Berger
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
Jean Arp
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world."
André Maurois
"The art of giving is the art of living."
Thornton Wilder
"A great work of art is one that tells us something we have not known, or tells us something we have known differently."
Herbert Read
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"All good art is abstract in its way, and should be; it is the concentration upon certain chosen physical and mental attributes."
Sir Francis Bacon
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
Agnes Martin
"Art is anything you can get away with."
Marshall McLuhan

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