“All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.”
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German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956Related quotes
“Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.”
Diary, 29 August 1932.
Quotation posted with the permission of the National Scottish Library, Edinburgh, Scotland.
“The most perfect art was Greek art. Raphael is the greatest of all masters in painting.”
Such were the doctrines of every art teacher only twenty or thirty years ago.
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1900 - 1920, On Primitive Art – Emil Nolde, 1912
“The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.”
The Beauty of Life (1880).
Source: I Capture the Castle
“…if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”
from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
1940s
Entendia que há larga ponderação de males e bens, e que a arte de viver consiste em tirar o maior bem do maior mal.
Source: Iaiá Garcia (1878) ch. 3; Albert I. Bagby, Jr. (trans.) Iaiá Garcia (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1977) p. 23.
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”