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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every pictu

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – G.K. Chesterton

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What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. – G.K. Chesterton

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris

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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. – Jerry Saltz

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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art. – Jet Li

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon

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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne

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