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Art Quotes - random


Henry Taylor | Art Quotes
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Walter Pater
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Robert Hughes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.




Donald Knuth
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Tom Robbins
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Art Quotes
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Robert Motherwell
Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile.
Peter Blake
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
Federico Fellini | Art Quotes
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.




Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
William Saroyan
Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.
Jack Thompson
No, you are not art. You are... a public nuisance. We're about to ban you. Hooah.
Robert Hughes
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Patrick Swift | Art Quotes
Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.
Pauline Kael
Kicked in the ribs, the press says "art" when "ouch" would be more appropriate.
Wallace Stevens
The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.
Charles Churchill
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.


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