Art is commonly understood to be skill used to produce an aesthetic result (Hatcher, 1999). Artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind, from early pre-historic art to contemporary art.

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• "Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses."
  • Aitken, Max, recalled on his death (9 June 1964)

• "Light is impressionism."
  • Aulenti, Gae, On positioning galleries for impressionist and post impressionist paintings at the top of her design for Paris's Musée d'Orsay, Time (8 December 1986)

• "This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago."
  • Barr, Alfred, Newsweek (1 June 1964)

• "Art is made by the alone for the alone."
  • Barragán, Luis, Time (12 May 1980)

• "Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."
  • Baskin, Leonard, Publishers Weekly (5 April 1965)

• "Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
  • Bernstein, Leonard, "What Makes Opera Grand?" Vogue (December 1958)

• If the world were clear, art would not exist.
  • Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), "Absurd Creation" (Tr. Justin O'Brien, Vantage International, 1991, ISBN 0-679-73373-6, p. 98)

• "Art is the triumph over chaos."
  • Cheever, John, The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978)

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