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Art Quotes - random


William Congreve | Art Quotes
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Joseph Stella
The motto of modern art is freedom...real freedom.




Rembrandt
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Frida Kahlo
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Tristan J. Loo | Art Quotes
"A true master of peace is well versed in the art of war."
Gerhard Richter
My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Albert Camus
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Amedeo Modigliani
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Frank Zappa | Art Quotes
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.




Anais Nin
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Oliver Herford
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs .
James McNeill Whistler | Art Quotes
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
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!
Maria Callas
Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
George Moore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
Avner Strauss
The mind is like a sea, few are those who dare sail, most stand on the shore and watch. Artist pages. (A.S.)


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