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Art Quotes - random


Max Pechstein | Art Quotes
Art is not a pastime, it is a duty with respect to the people, a public affair.
Nick Cave
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…




Avner Strauss
When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower. Artist Pages.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Gustave Flaubert | Art Quotes
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.
William Hazlitt
The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Nero (Emperor)
The world is losing a great artist (dies).
Matthew Arnold | Art Quotes
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’




Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.
Hiromu Arakawa
Interviewer: Would you say any other manga artists have influenced you?
Mignon McLaughlin
An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.
Jean-Luc Godard
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Harold Rosenberg | Art Quotes
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
Edgar Degas
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Alain Badiou
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Grace Hartigan
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
Ray Cash
"I want to venerate the artists like UGK, Scarface, and Jay-Z through my music."


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