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Art Quotes - random


Oscar Wilde | Art Quotes
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Joseph Albers
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)




Robert Louis Stevenson
There is but one art, to omit.
John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Jeff VanderMeer | Art Quotes
It looked like lively abstract art. Symbols in search of context.
Nick Cave
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.
Hans Hofmann
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Benjamin Jowett
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
Mark Rothko
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Art Quotes
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.




Michel de Montaigne
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
David Sedaris
If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
Andre Malraux
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Avner Strauss
When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower. Artist Pages.
Denise Levertov | Art Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Genco Gulan
Art shouldn’t be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.
Willa Cather
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is anything you can get away with.
Harold Rosenberg
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.


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