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Art Quotes - random


Friedrich Nietzsche | Art Quotes
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
Kenneth Clark
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.




Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
M. C. Escher | Art Quotes
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
Francis Wayland
It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
Jean Sibelius
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Orson Scott Card
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
Robert M. Pirsig | Art Quotes
Making... an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.




Robert Motherwell
Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.
Kenneth Clark
The great artist takes what he needs.
Leo Tolstoy
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Stephen Potter
The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.
George R. R. Martin | Art Quotes
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.
Robert Hughes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Anton Chekhov
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Allan Kaprow
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Sol LeWitt
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.


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