[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. - Alfred North Whitehead
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. - Cicero
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. - David Cronenberg
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. - E. M. Forster
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. - Elizabeth Bowen
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. - Federico Fellini
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