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  • [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly1 bewildered.

    Al Capp (1909 - 1979)

    Art is the imposing2 of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic3 enjoyment4 is recognition of the pattern.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)

    Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

    Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

    Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

    Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)

    Art is a collaboration5 between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

    Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

    I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail6 as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

    Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

    Let each man exercise the art he knows.

    Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps7, 422 B.C.

    The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

    Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

    Barbra Streisand (1942 - )

    I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

    Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)

    So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient8, happy idling, dawdling9 and puttering.

    Brenda Ueland

    I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

    Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05

    I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

    Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora10 Borealis, 1990

    Art is born of the observation and investigation11 of nature.

    Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

    Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats12, and royalty13. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

    David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06

    The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

    David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06

    I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?

    Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )

    If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

    Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

    I merely took the energy it takes to pout14 and wrote some blues15.

    Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

    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.

    E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

    Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity16, the dread17 of doing what has been done before.

    Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

    Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder18 at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

    Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

    A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

    Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

    It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

    Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

    Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

    Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)

    Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain19 it in anything.

    Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

    I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely20 this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

    Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)

    Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

    Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

    I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

    Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)

    Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

    G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

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    1 utterly ['ʌtəli:] ZfpzM1   第9级
    adv.完全地,绝对地
    参考例句:
    • Utterly devoted to the people, he gave his life in saving his patients. 他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
    • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled. 她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
    2 imposing [ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ] 8q9zcB   第8级
    adj.使人难忘的,壮丽的,堂皇的,雄伟的
    参考例句:
    • The fortress is an imposing building. 这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
    • He has lost his imposing appearance. 他已失去堂堂仪表。
    3 aesthetic [i:sˈθetɪk] px8zm   第7级
    adj.美学的,审美的,有美感
    参考例句:
    • My aesthetic standards are quite different from his. 我的审美标准与他的大不相同。
    • The professor advanced a new aesthetic theory. 那位教授提出了新的美学理论。
    4 enjoyment [ɪnˈdʒɔɪmənt] opaxV   第7级
    n.乐趣;享有;享用
    参考例句:
    • Your company adds to the enjoyment of our visit. 有您的陪同,我们这次访问更加愉快了。
    • After each joke the old man cackled his enjoyment. 每逢讲完一个笑话,这老人就呵呵笑着表示他的高兴。
    5 collaboration [kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃn] bW7yD   第7级
    n.合作,协作;勾结
    参考例句:
    • The two companies are working in close collaboration each other. 这两家公司密切合作。
    • He was shot for collaboration with the enemy. 他因通敌而被枪毙了。
    6 entail [ɪnˈteɪl] ujdzO   第7级
    vt.使承担,使成为必要,需要
    参考例句:
    • Such a decision would entail a huge political risk. 这样的决定势必带来巨大的政治风险。
    • This job would entail your learning how to use a computer. 这工作将需要你学会怎样用计算机。
    7 wasps ['wɒsps] fb5b4ba79c574cee74f48a72a48c03ef   第9级
    黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 ); 胡蜂; 易动怒的人; 刻毒的人
    参考例句:
    • There's a wasps' nest in that old tree. 那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。
    • We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. 我们不仅生活在对象蜘蛛或黄蜂这样的小虫的惧怕中,而且生活在对诸如飞蛾这样无害昆虫的惧怕中
    8 inefficient [ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃnt] c76xm   第7级
    adj.效率低的,无效的
    参考例句:
    • The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money. 低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
    • Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme. 他们的通讯系统效率非常差。
    9 dawdling ['dɔ:dlɪŋ] 9685b05ad25caee5c16a092f6e575992   第10级
    adj.闲逛的,懒散的v.混(时间)( dawdle的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    • Stop dawdling! We're going to be late! 别磨蹭了,咱们快迟到了!
    • It was all because of your dawdling that we were late. 都是你老磨蹭,害得我们迟到了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
    10 aurora [ɔ:'rɔ:rə] aV9zX   第11级
    n.极光
    参考例句:
    • The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles. 极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
    • Over the polar regions we should see aurora. 在极地高空,我们会看到极光。
    11 investigation [ɪnˌvestɪˈgeɪʃn] MRKzq   第7级
    n.调查,调查研究
    参考例句:
    • In an investigation, a new fact became known, which told against him. 在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
    • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation. 他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
    12 aristocrats [æ'rɪstəkræts] 45f57328b4cffd28a78c031f142ec347   第8级
    n.贵族( aristocrat的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • Many aristocrats were killed in the French Revolution. 许多贵族在法国大革命中被处死。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • To the Guillotine all aristocrats! 把全部贵族都送上断头台! 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
    13 royalty [ˈrɔɪəlti] iX6xN   第7级
    n.皇家,皇族
    参考例句:
    • She claims to be descended from royalty. 她声称她是皇室后裔。
    • I waited on tables, and even catered to royalty at the Royal Albert Hall. 我做过服务生,甚至在皇家阿伯特大厅侍奉过皇室的人。
    14 pout [paʊt] YP8xg   第12级
    n. 撅嘴;生气 vt. 撅嘴 vi. 撅嘴
    参考例句:
    • She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout. 她看着恋人,故作不悦地撅着嘴。
    • He whined and pouted when he did not get what he wanted. 他要是没得到想要的东西就会发牢骚、撅嘴。
    15 blues [blu:z] blues   第9级
    n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐
    参考例句:
    • She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues. 她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
    • He was in the blues on account of his failure in business. 他因事业失败而意志消沉。
    16 immaturity [ˌɪmə'tjʊərətɪ] 779396dd776272b5ff34c0218a6c4aba   第8级
    n.不成熟;未充分成长;未成熟;粗糙
    参考例句:
    • It traces the development of a young man from immaturity to maturity. 它描写一位青年从不成熟到成熟的发展过程。 来自辞典例句
    • Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. 不成熟就是不经他人的指引就无法运用自身的理解力。 来自互联网
    17 dread [dred] Ekpz8   第7级
    vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧
    参考例句:
    • We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes. 我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
    • Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread. 她极度恐惧的心理消除了。
    18 shudder [ˈʃʌdə(r)] JEqy8   第8级
    vi.战粟,震动,剧烈地摇晃;n.战粟,抖动
    参考例句:
    • The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him. 看到那副棺材,他浑身一阵战栗。
    • We all shudder at the thought of the dreadful dirty place. 我们一想到那可怕的肮脏地方就浑身战惊。
    19 attain [əˈteɪn] HvYzX   第7级
    vt.达到,获得,完成
    参考例句:
    • I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
    • His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。
    20 precisely [prɪˈsaɪsli] zlWzUb   第8级
    adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
    参考例句:
    • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust. 我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
    • The man adjusted very precisely. 那个人调得很准。

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