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Wendell Berry | Art Quotes
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.




Sun Tzu
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
David Hume | Art Quotes
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.
Grace Hartigan
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Henry Miller
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Oliver Goldsmith
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Max Beerbohm | Art Quotes
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.




Shashi Tharoor
Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
Wilfrid Sheed
Both of them were artists with highly developed personas, and hence unreliable witnesses to their own pasts.
Barnett Newman
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Victor Hugo
Music is the vapour of art.
William Hazlitt | Art Quotes
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Epictetus
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
Mary Robinette Kowal
Without passion there is no art, only technique.


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