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Art Quotes - random


Thomas Fuller (writer) | Art Quotes
Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
Jonathan Swift
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Iris Murdoch
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.




Bertrand Russell
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Jean Cocteau | Art Quotes
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Anthony Burgess
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Grace Hartigan
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Tony Blair
That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
John Banville | Art Quotes
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.




Bertolt Brecht
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Fernando Pessoa
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Susanne Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Alain Badiou | Art Quotes
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
Robert Motherwell
Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.
Orson Scott Card
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
William Cowper
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
William the Silent
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!


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