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Art Quotes - random


Romain Rolland | Art Quotes
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Brian Eno
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.




Ad Reinhardt
Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.
George Eliot
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
Sherwood Anderson | Art Quotes
Realism in so far as it means reality to life is always bad art.
Pierre Schaeffer
Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
James A. Michener
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
M. C. Escher | Art Quotes
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.




Michel de Montaigne
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Charles Reade
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
Andre Malraux
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Virginia Woolf
The artist after all is a solitary being.
Orson Welles | Art Quotes
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
William Tyndale
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Andy Goldsworthy
One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America
William Saroyan
Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is but one art, to omit.


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