Quote by Samuel Butler
The history of art is the history of revivals. - Samuel Butler

The history of art is the history of revivals. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. – Samuel Butler

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Medical
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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Music
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Other Quotes from
Art
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What is art? Prostitution. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

Its high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbells soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. – Camille Paglia

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Art

Kinkades paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, Id love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkades work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. – Anthony Kiedis

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Art

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