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- abbreviation article
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The spirit is a bone, the philosopher Hegel once declared. to find the courage to say the very last words and to make them sing like the recessional to the very last service - this is what I call art.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The spirit is a bone, the philosopher Hegel once declared. to find the courage to say the very last words and to make them sing like the recessional to the very last service - this is what I call art.
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In which truth resides surely much of the interest of that admirable mixture for salutary application which we know as art.
The Ambassadors 2003
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There is the attempt at the beautification of life, which we call art.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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There is the attempt at the beautification of life, which we call art.
Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922
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But what he has to add, if his work is to be art at all, is the emotional mood, the exaltation, depression, excitement, or whatever it may be, which Arundel stirred in him, and by means of which he and the scene before him were melted into that unity of intensified life which is born of the marriage of nature and man and is what we call art.
Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897
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In which truth resides surely much of the interest of that admirable mixture for salutary application which we know as art.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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“…to do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”
What a Great Time for a Trip to Asia The Daily Growler 2006
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I think that was on purpose because the movie art has those lines in the "Twilight" title art.
The Twilight Zone 2009
bilby commented on the word art.
imitates. life.
November 10, 2021