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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ↗

— Louise Brooks

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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. ↗

— Steven Moffat

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