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31 BEAUTIFUL WORKS OF HUMAN ART

6/10/2015

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We may not know much about art, but we know what we like.

​We also know that art is considered 
the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

Whatever that means.

But surely, it is not for the likes of us to decide what is and isn't art. If it is created by humankind, it is - by the above definition - art. Here, then, are 31 profound, moving, and beautiful works of human creativity that we have chosen especially for our discerning readers...

31. "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle
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30. "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso
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29. "When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection." - Agnes Martin
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28. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." - Michelangeo 
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27. "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde
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26. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
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25. "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keefe
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24. "A picture is a poem without words." - Horace
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23. "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." Friedrich Nietzsche
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22. "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual." Vladimir Nabokov
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21. "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." - Federico Fellini
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20. "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." - Michelangelo
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19. "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth." - Theodor Adorno
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18. "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have." - Andy Warhol
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17. "The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill." - W.Somerset Maughan
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16. "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." - Rene Magritte 
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15. "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." - George Bernard Shaw
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14. "Every good painter paints what he is." - Jackson Pollock
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13. "Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings." - Agnes Martin
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12. "Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods." - Iris Murdoch
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11. "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide
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10. "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." - Paul Valery
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9. "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things." - Henri Matisse
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8. "Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down." - Malcolm de Chazal
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7. "Great art is an instant arrested in eternity." - James Huneker
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6. "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see." - Paul Klee
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5. "Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art." - Josh Peck
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4. "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art." - Walter Hagen
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3. "If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?" - Ai Weiwei
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2. "Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable." - Charles Baudelaire
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1. "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand." - Pablo Picasso
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A medical doctor
7/10/2015 08:00:27 am

All I can think seeing these is the poison from the permanent markers... Anyone else getting that? Creeps me out. All those solvent based inks seeping into the skin, into the blood, binding with one's DNA, one's very soul, controlling the synapses and hormones, encouraging one to go out, GO OUT AND KI... Whoa. Sorry. Flashbacks from my days in medical school.

Disappointed that one of these wasn't Loopy Lisa after a boozy night out.

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