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Art Quotes - random


Francis Bacon | Art Quotes
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Martin Firrell
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
William Saroyan
Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.




Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress.
Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
Osbert Sitwell | Art Quotes
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
Walter Pater
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Matthew Arnold
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
Kenneth Clark
The great artist takes what he needs.
Madonna Ciccone | Art Quotes
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."




George Linley
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
Joseph Gordon Levitt
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Thomas Jefferson
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Nero (Emperor) | Art Quotes
The world is losing a great artist (dies).
Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Oliver Herford
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Ai Weiwei
"Art is not an end but a beginning."
Ad Reinhardt
Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.


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