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Art Quotes - random


Charles Reade | Art Quotes
Art is not imitation but illusion.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
The only way to development(as an artist) cultivating one's own innate powers.




Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Asger Jorn
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Lionel Trilling | Art Quotes
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Northrop Frye
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Anton Chekhov
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Aubrey Beardsley
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
Maxfield Parrish
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
Sir Thomas Browne | Art Quotes
Art is the perfection of nature.




Oscar Wilde
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Isabel Bishop
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
William Wetmore Story
The Poet in his Art
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
Arshile Gorky | Art Quotes
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Robert Motherwell
Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.
Patrick Swift
Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Thomas Hardy
You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!


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