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Art Quotes - random


La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile.
John Fowles
All good science is art. And all good art is science.
Ben Jonson
That Shakespeare wanted Art.




John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Camille Paglia
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Lafcadio Hearn | Art Quotes
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Ai Weiwei
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
Maurice Denis
...Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.
Asger Jorn
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Clement Greenberg
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced. (1973)
Brus,Gunter | Art Quotes
Color will play no part in the art of future.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
E. E. Cummings
Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
O. Henry
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Henry Miller
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Nick Cave | Art Quotes
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.
Leon Bertoletti
Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.
Roger Bacon
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Anonymous
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.


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