To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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