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Art Quotes - random


John Constable | Art Quotes
The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.
Alfred North Whitehead
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Theodor Adorno
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.




Nick Cave
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.
Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
Stanley Spencer
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Robert M. Pirsig
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
Patrick Swift | Art Quotes
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.




Kevin Rowland
Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
Banksy
I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Maurice Denis | Art Quotes
...Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.
William Saroyan
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
Lukas Moser
Cry, Art, cry and lament loudly, nobody nowadays wants you.
Charles de Lint
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.


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