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Art Quotes - random


John Dryden | Art Quotes
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Hans Hofmann
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it — that is art.
Anthony Burgess
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.




Iris Murdoch
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Ai Weiwei
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
Mary Robinette Kowal | Art Quotes
Without passion there is no art, only technique.
Anton Chekhov
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Guillaume Apollinaire
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est ? l'art de l'écrivain.
Stanley Spencer
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
Anton Chekhov
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
William Blake | Art Quotes
Art is the tree of life.
SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH
ART is the Tree of LIFE GOD is JESUS




James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Nicholas Serota
An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
Dale Carnegie
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Pablo Picasso | Art Quotes
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
Ferruccio Busoni
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.
David Lodge
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
Helen Frankenthaler
Consciously and unconsciously the artist allows what must happen to happen.


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