E. M. Forster Quotes About Art
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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History develops, art stands still.
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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