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Art Quotes - random


A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Osbert Sitwell
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
Charles Churchill
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.




Wendell Berry
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Herbert Fisher | Art Quotes
Politics is the art of human happiness.
Anonymous
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
William Congreve
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
The only way to development(as an artist) cultivating one's own innate powers.
Richard Franck | Art Quotes
Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.




Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Ayn Rand
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
William Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Federico Fellini | Art Quotes
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
William Whewell
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Cowper
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
Ai Weiwei
"Everything is art. Everything is politics."
Brus,Gunter
You become an artist to upset your family.


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