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Art Quotes - random


Marilyn Manson | Art Quotes
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.




Fernando Pessoa
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
William Saroyan
At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
Jean Cocteau | Art Quotes
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Hiromu Arakawa
Interviewer: Would you say any other manga artists have influenced you?
Halldor Laxness
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
Rabindranath Tagore
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Art Quotes
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.




Robert Hughes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)
Robert Owen
Thou needest to be very right, Robert, for thou art very positive.
Leo Tolstoy
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Andre Malraux | Art Quotes
L'art est un anti-destin.
David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
Marshall McLuhan
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Mary Robinette Kowal
Without passion there is no art, only technique.
Fernando Pessoa
Art lies because it's social.


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