„The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.“

— John Keats

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„The excellence of every Art is its intensity.“
— John Keats
„Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.“
— James Joyce
„But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.“
— Theodor W. Adorno
„Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance“
— Jean Paul Sartre