Reading · Dante’s Descent

Art is literacy of the heart

- Elliot Eisner

Art isn’t always framed; sometimes it’s just waiting around the corner.

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

— Pablo Picasso

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

— Anatole France

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

— Jean Cocteau

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

— Stella Adler

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

— Paul Cezanne

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

“Some art whispers in galleries. Other art shouts from alleyways.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

— Salvador Dali

I shut my eyes in order to see.

— Paul Gauguin

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. — Banksy

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