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Art Quotes - random


Arthur Wesley Dow | Art Quotes
Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Henry George Liddell
He was the only man in Oxford among the masters of my day who knew anything of art.
Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.




Jean Cocteau
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
Amedeo Modigliani | Art Quotes
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Randall Jarrell
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
A. P. Herbert
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
Nicholas Serota
An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
Martin Firrell | Art Quotes
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.




Madonna Ciccone
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
John Keats
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
Steve Jobs
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
Clement Greenberg | Art Quotes
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced. (1973)
Ai Weiwei
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Dale Carnegie
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Grace Hartigan
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.


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