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Art Quotes - random


M. C. Escher | Art Quotes
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Dale Carnegie
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.




Poul Henningsen
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
Barnett Newman
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
John Cage | Art Quotes
"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
W. S. Gilbert
Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Frida Kahlo
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
E. T. A. Hoffmann | Art Quotes
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.




William Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Joseph Conrad
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
Charles Churchill
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Luke Haines
All British artists 1988--? Just signing your name is not enough, you withered fucking idiots.
Soutar,William | Art Quotes
Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.
William Shakespeare
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Romain Rolland
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Paul Klee
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!


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