20 Below are some humorous quotations about art. Read them and explain art’s essence, people’s attitudes and what part art plays or played in their lives, as far as the quotations are concerned.
| ŒLife is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh
| The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you are an artist.
Max Jacob
| “If you want to know everything about me, just look at the surface of my paintings, it’s all there, there’s nothing more.
Andy Warhol
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| He always had that “Touch of Madness” that marks the true artist and breaks the hearts of the young girls from fine homes.
Robert Crumb
| ‘My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war.
Tom Stoppard
| ”A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent. He leaves that to the popular novelist.
Oscar Wild
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| Ž… at one point I found myself standing before an oil of a horse that I figured was probably a self-portrait judging from the general execution…
Peter de Vries
| •The artist is a lucky dog… In any community of a thousand souls there will be nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky dog painting or writing about the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.
Tom Stoppard
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| To an artist a husband named Bicket
Said, “Turn your backside, and I’ll kick it.
You have painted my wife
In the nude to the life.
Do you think for a moment that’s cricket?
John Galsworthy
| ’If Botticelli were alive today, he’d be working for Vogue.
Peter Ustinov
| ŒŒNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wild
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21 Phrase your own perception of Fine Arts – what you think their essence is, what you call art and how much art there is in your life. If appropriate, find support for your views among the opinions above?
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You will now listen to a poem, which inspired an artist to draw a picture. Listen to it and guess which picture it is. Explain what gave you a hunch.
| Dilip Datta. "Worklife"
| Albert Ievin. "Louise 4"
| Anita Clein. "Pink Angel Resting"
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