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Art Quotes - random


An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Steve Jobs
Real artists ship.
Lionel Trilling
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.




Camille Paglia
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
William Saroyan
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
John Fowles | Art Quotes
All good science is art. And all good art is science.
Cyril Connolly
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Andre Malraux
One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.
Alfred North Whitehead
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Toni Morrison
Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
Alain Badiou | Art Quotes
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.




Susanne Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Ai Weiwei
"Everything is art. Everything is politics."
Ben Jonson
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
Ai Weiwei
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
Saul Bellow | Art Quotes
What is art but a way of seeing?
Ray Cash
"I want to venerate the artists like UGK, Scarface, and Jay-Z through my music."
Henry George Liddell
He was the only man in Oxford among the masters of my day who knew anything of art.
Edgar Degas
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).


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