"Life is short, art endures."
(Vita brevis, ars longa.)
Hippocrates
(460 - 400 BC) Greek philosopher.
"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)
"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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