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Art Quotes - random


Susan Sontag | Art Quotes
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Martin Firrell
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.




Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
John Dryden
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
G. H. Hardy
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
Peter Blake
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
Tarik Gunersel
If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.
Robert Rauschenberg
(art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
Halldor Laxness | Art Quotes
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.




Robert Hughes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Martha Graham
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
Anton Chekhov
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Brus,Gunter
You become an artist to upset your family.
Edgar Degas | Art Quotes
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
Paul Scofield
Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.
John Banville
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
Marcel Duchamp
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.


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