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Art Quotes - random


Friedrich Nietzsche | Art Quotes
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile.
M. C. Escher
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.




Gwendolyn Brooks
Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.
Helen Rowland
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
Vincent Van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Arnold Schoenberg
...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Pierre Schaeffer
Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Iris Murdoch | Art Quotes
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.




Jan Tschichold
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Keariene Muizz
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Ai Weiwei
"Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know."
Izaak Walton
It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Evelyn Waugh | Art Quotes
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Piet Hein
There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.
Willa Cather
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies.
The art of life is passing losses on.
Madonna Ciccone
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."


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