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Art Quotes - random


Beverly Sills | Art Quotes
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Frida Kahlo
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Stephane Mallarme
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.




William Baziotes
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.
Leon Trotsky
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Nick Cave | Art Quotes
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
Raphael Soyer
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Paracelsus
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Jean Cocteau
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Harold Rosenberg | Art Quotes
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.




Madonna Ciccone
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Sandy Koufax
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Ai Weiwei
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
Edward Hopper | Art Quotes
Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
John Ruskin
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Claude Debussy
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
George Bernard Shaw
To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.


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