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William Hazlitt | Art Quotes
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
Dale Carnegie
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.




Poul Henningsen
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
George Linley
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
Man Ray | Art Quotes
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
William Morris
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Somerset Maugham
In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
George Bernard Shaw
To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
John Lancaster Spalding
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.




David Hockney
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
Brus,Gunter
Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Susan Sontag
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art."
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Whitney Chadwick
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
Tarik Gunersel
If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.
Martin Firrell
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?


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