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Art Quotes - random


Jasper Johns | Art Quotes
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Martin Firrell
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Hans Arp
Art is a fruit that grows in man.




Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
George Santayana
Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Art Quotes
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
Ben Jonson
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Isabel Bishop
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
William Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Andrew Marvell | Art Quotes
Art indeed is long, but life is short.




James McNeill Whistler
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Roger Ebert
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
Kenneth Clark
The great artist takes what he needs.
Allan Kaprow
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Margaret Fuller | Art Quotes
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Michel de Montaigne
Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.
George Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Sun Tzu
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.


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