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Art Quotes - random


Robertson Davies | Art Quotes
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
Bruce Lee
His martial art skills made Lee arguably the greatest martial artist of his time — or any other.
David Lynch
Luckily, David is able to vent everything through his art ... because otherwise somebody might be dead.




John Henry Cardinal Newman
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
Martha Graham
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
Robert Hughes | Art Quotes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bk. II, Observations in the Minset of the Wanderer: Art, Ethics, Nature
Patrick Swift
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Willa Cather
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Orson Scott Card | Art Quotes
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”




James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Marilyn Manson
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
Brandon Boyd
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Jeff VanderMeer | Art Quotes
It looked like lively abstract art. Symbols in search of context.
Karl Kraus
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Jeanette Winterson
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Grace Hartigan
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
Ai Weiwei
"Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know."


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