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Art Quotes - random


Ad Reinhardt | Art Quotes
Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider ? la nature.
Joseph Albers
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.




Martin Firrell
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
Jean Cocteau | Art Quotes
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Camille Paglia
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Bertolt Brecht
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Lionel Trilling
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Archilochus | Art Quotes
I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.




Gerhard Richter
My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Marilyn Manson
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
Toni Morrison
Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
Hans Hofmann | Art Quotes
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
William Congreve
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
Arnold Schoenberg
...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Albert Einstein
The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!


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