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Art Quotes - random


Wendell Berry | Art Quotes
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Halldor Laxness
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.




Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Willa Cather
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Margaret Fuller | Art Quotes
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Frida Kahlo
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Thomas Warton
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
John Fowles
All good science is art. And all good art is science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Susan Sontag | Art Quotes
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.




Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Jeff Buckley
GAP: Who is your favorite musical artist?
Brandon Boyd: Jeff Buckley
William Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Andrei Codrescu
Only the poor can create art.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"Everything is art. Everything is politics."
Oscar Wilde
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
Jorge Luis Borges
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.


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