Posted by: Federico
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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It is bad to have others to compliantly what, with a noble art, we may do ourselves.
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Posted by: mor-joy
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Almost always what affects the moral beauty doubles the poetic beauty. With virtue only quiet and cold paintings are made, it is the passion and vice those that animate compositions of the painter, poet and musician.
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Posted by: libera poetante
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No only do I hate the cells of a prison, but even those of art, where few stay or just alone, I am for the clarity without shadows of the sun to the zenith point, that hides nothing of good and evil. If poetry bears this great light, then it is true poetry.
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The art of viciousness is a lot worse than the absense of art itself.
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Posted by: Cheope
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Posted by: Samuele Marazzita
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Posted by: Rosita Matera
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A true artist behave like a bird laid down on a fragile branch that he feels to break down under his weight but he sings anyway because he knows he has wings.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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