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"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."
-- D.H. Lawrence

"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."
-- Henry James

"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end."
-- James Joyce

"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen."
-- Leo Tolstoy