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Art Quotes - random


George Eliot | Art Quotes
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
Donald Knuth
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
James A. Michener
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.




Colin Powell
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Tom Robbins
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Helen Hayes | Art Quotes
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Stanley Spencer
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
Claude Debussy
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
Orson Scott Card
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
Ai Weiwei
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
Martin Firrell | Art Quotes
One of the capital's most influential public artists.




Oliver Herford
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
William Saroyan
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
Aristophanes
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Joseph Conrad
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
L. Ron Hubbard | Art Quotes
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
David Hockney
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
Leon Trotsky
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Adelaide Crapsey
Artists give us not conclusions but evidence.
Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."


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