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Art Quotes - random


Izaak Walton | Art Quotes
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
Walter Pater
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.




John Banville
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
Leon Bertoletti
Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.
James McNeill Whistler | Art Quotes
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Mark Rothko
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
David Hockney
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
Jean Cocteau
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Frank Zappa | Art Quotes
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.




Barbara Kingsolver
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Maurice Denis
I believe that art should sanctify nature.
Helen Frankenthaler
Betty and her gallery helped construct the center of the art world. She was one of the last of her breed.
R. S. Thomas
All art is anonymous.
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
George Moore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
Harold Rosenberg
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
William Collins
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.
Hippocrates
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.


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