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Art Quotes - random


John Banville | Art Quotes
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
Ai Weiwei
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Donald Knuth
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.




Ben Jonson
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
Asger Jorn
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
Tony Blair
That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
William Wetmore Story
The Poet in his Art
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Maurice Denis | Art Quotes
I believe that art should sanctify nature.




E. E. Cummings
Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
Jean Cocteau
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Robert Burton
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
Francis Wayland | Art Quotes
It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
William Saroyan
Art is what is irresistible.
Anton Chekhov
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Brandon Boyd
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.


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