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Art Quotes - random


Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.
John Ruskin
Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
William Cowper
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.




Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is whatever you can get away with.
Arthur Wesley Dow | Art Quotes
..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
John Lancaster Spalding
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
Jean Cocteau
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Ai Weiwei
"Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know."
Bob Dylan
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back.
William Saroyan | Art Quotes
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.




Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Peter Blake
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
Anthony Trollope
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Jean Cocteau
Art is science made clear.
William Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Vincent Van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Gustave Flaubert
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.


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