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Art Quotes - random


George Bernard Shaw | Art Quotes
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Wallace Stevens
The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.
Sandra Bernhard
My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.




Ai Weiwei
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Epictetus | Art Quotes
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Tony Blair
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
Madonna | Art Quotes
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."




Brandon Boyd
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made.
Jonathan Franzen
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
Steve Jobs
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
Marcus Aurelius | Art Quotes
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
William Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Franz Liszt
"le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."
Benjamin Disraeli
You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.


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