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Art Quotes - random


Asger Jorn | Art Quotes
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Keariene Muizz
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Marshall McLuhan
Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.




John Wesley Hardrick
Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
Marshall McLuhan
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.
Andy Goldsworthy | Art Quotes
One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Iris Murdoch
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Ferruccio Busoni
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.
Matthew Arnold | Art Quotes
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’




Richard Wright
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Walter Benjamin
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
Theodore Roethke
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
Charles Reade | Art Quotes
Art is not imitation but illusion.
Camille Paglia
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Jack Thompson
No, you are not art. You are... a public nuisance. We're about to ban you. Hooah.
Tom Robbins
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.


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