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Home Art The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Polly, August 14, 2013

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

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