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Art Quotes - random


Vladimir Mayakovsky | Art Quotes
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Sandra Bernhard
My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.
William Saroyan
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.




Wendell Berry
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Samuel Laman Blanchard | Art Quotes
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.
Henry Miller
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Barbara Kingsolver
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Aubrey Beardsley
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
Pauline Kael | Art Quotes
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.




Marshall McLuhan
Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.
Brus,Gunter
Color will play no part in the art of future.
Nick Cave
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.
Wilfrid Sheed
Both of them were artists with highly developed personas, and hence unreliable witnesses to their own pasts.
Ben Jonson | Art Quotes
If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
Anais Nin
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
Ad Reinhardt
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Andrei Codrescu
Only the poor can create art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!


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