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Art Quotes - random


O. Henry | Art Quotes
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Iris Murdoch
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Ben Jonson
If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.




Walter Benjamin
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Emile Zola | Art Quotes
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
George Bernard Shaw
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Whitney Chadwick | Art Quotes
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."




Robertson Davies
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
Thomas David
How free from every thing like art were the reasonings and language of Christ.
Louis Nizer
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Jean Cocteau
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Madonna Ciccone | Art Quotes
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Bertrand Russell
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Wallace Stevens
The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.
John Dryden
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Alfred North Whitehead
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.


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