1. Cervantes: Art does not transcend nature, but it makes nature more beautifying.

2. Leo Tolstoy: Art is not a skill, it is the communication of emotions experienced by the artist.

3. Ovid: The success of art lies in the absence of traces of artificial carving.

4. Cy Johnson: The enemy of art is ignorance.

5. Chernyshevsky: The first purpose of art is to reproduce reality.

6. Ruskin: The foundation of art lies in moral personality.

7. Romain Rolland: The great significance of art basically lies in its ability to show people's true feelings, the mystery of inner life and the passionate world.

8. Chekhov: Art gives us wings and takes us to places far, far away.

9. Dryden: Art may have fallacies, but nature never makes mistakes.

10. Goethe: The artist has a dual relationship with nature: he is both the master of nature and the slave of nature.