[New-Poetry] ART

[Bob Grumman]

I'm not surprised that a philistine like Tolstoy provides so poor a 
definition, but am slightly dismayed that the other journalist, who was 
not a philistine, does even worse. 

--Bob G. (who understands that art's primary purpose is to give others 
pleasure)

Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Quotes brought to light by Cathy Nelson:
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> */Art is that human activity which consists in one human consciously 
> conveying to others, by certain external signs, the feelings he has 
> experienced, and in others being affected by those feelings and also 
> experiencing them. (Leo Tolstoy, What is Art? 1898)/* 
>
>  
>
> */Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's 
> metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of 
> reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. 
> /**/(Marcel Proust) /*
>
> *//* 
>
> */
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> Anny Ballardini
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a 
> dancing star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
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