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The
Talmud |
We
don't see the world as it is.
We see the world as we are. |
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Mark
Tansay |
A
painted picture is like a vehicle. One can either sit in
the driveway and take it apart or one can get in it and go
somewhere. |
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Terry
Teachout |
A
masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up
your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as
you like.
[Wall Street Journal, Oct 17, 2009] |
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Don
Thompson |
Just
remember the key part of the word contemporary is temporary.
[Quoted in The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious
Economics of
Contemporary Art and Auction Houses] |
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Leo
Tolstoy |
Art
is indispensible for the life and progress toward well-being of
individuals and of humanity. [What is Art? 1896] |
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Leo
Tolstoy |
The
artist of the future will understand that to draw a sketch such
as will delight dozens of generations or millions of children
and adults, is incomparably more important and more fruitful
than to paint a picture, of the kind which diverts some members
of the weathy classes for a short time and is then forever
forgotten. The region of this art of the simplest feelings
accessible to all is enormous, and it is almost as yet
untouched. [What is Art? 1896] |
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Kojiro
Tomita
(1890-1976) |
It
has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker
and beholder meet. [Tomita was Curator
of Asian Art Boston MFA] |
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George
Tooker
(1920-2011) |
Painting
is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as
many solutions as there are human beings. |
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Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec
(1864-1901) |
At
last I do not know how to draw. |
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Mark
Twain |
It
usually takes me about three weeks to prepare a good impromptu
speech. |
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Mark
Twain |
At the door of the Ufizzi, in Florence, one is confronted by
statues of a man and a woman, noseless, battered, black with
accumulated grime--they hardly suggest human beings--yet these
ridiculous creatures have been thoughtfully and conscientiously
fig-leaved by this fastidious generation.
You enter, and
proceed to that most-visited little gallery that exists in the
world--the Tribune--and there, against the wall, without
obstructing rag or leaf, you may look your fill upon the
foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world
possesses--Titian's Venus.
It isn't that she is naked and
stretched out on a bed--no, it is the attitude of one of her
arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there
would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to
gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for
she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges
I saw young
girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long
and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her
charms with a pathetic interest. How I should like to describe
her--just to see what a holy indignation I could stir up in the
world--just to hear the unreflecting average man deliver himself
about my grossness and coarseness, and all that.
The world
says that no worded description of a moving spectacle is a
hundredth part as moving as the same spectacle seen with one's
own eyes--yet the world is willing to let its son and its
daughter and itself look at Titian's beast, but won't stand a
description of it in words. Which shows that the world is not as
consistent as it might be.
There are pictures of nude women which suggest no impure
thought--I am well aware of that. I am not railing at such. What
I am trying to emphasize is the fact that Titian's Venus is very
far from being one of that sort. Without any question it was
painted for a bagnio and it was probably refused because it was
a trifle too strong. In truth, it is too strong for any place
but a public Art Gallery. Titian has two Venuses in the Tribune;
persons who have seen them will easily remember which one I am
referring to. {A Tramp Abroad] |
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