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Art has the qualities of aesthetic beauty, purity, transcendence.


Beauty is the resplendence of the truth.
-Antoni Gaudi

Art is the highest form of hope.
-Gerhard Richter

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
-Joris-Karl Huysmans

If we ignore the need of beauty, we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.
-Roger Scruton

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
-Plutarch

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
-Schumann

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
-Elbert Hubbard

Our feeling for beauty is a spiritual and not a sensual emotion.
-Roger Scruton

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
-Saint Augustine