Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright








 

 

 


Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso


 

 


 

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

Marcel Duchamp









Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michaelangelo








Flesh and Meat are life!  If I paint red meat as I paint bodies it is just because I find it very beautiful.

Francis Bacon









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