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Art Quotes - random


Donald Knuth | Art Quotes
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
William Wetmore Story
The Poet in his Art
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
Robert Motherwell
Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.




William the Silent
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!
Robert Hughes
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Richard Serra | Art Quotes
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
Sir Thomas Browne
Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
Albert Camus
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.
Helen Hayes
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Peter Blake | Art Quotes
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.




Henry James
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider ? la nature.
Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
Nero (Emperor) | Art Quotes
The world is losing a great artist (dies).
Jan Tschichold
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Bertrand Russell
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
Ben Jonson
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.


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