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Art Quotes - random


Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Brian Eno
Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."
Nero (Emperor)
The world is losing a great artist (dies).




Asger Jorn
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Anton Chekhov
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
James Jeffrey Roche | Art Quotes
All loved Art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Frida Kahlo
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Rembrandt
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Harold Rosenberg | Art Quotes
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.




Seneca the Younger
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. (translator unknown).
Stephane Mallarme
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
Izaak Walton
It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Jean Cocteau
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Izaak Walton | Art Quotes
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Ai Weiwei
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
Sir Thomas Browne
Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
Marshall McLuhan
The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.


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