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Bela Bartok | Art Quotes
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Ben Jonson
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.




Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
William Blake
Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?
Fernando Pessoa | Art Quotes
Art lies because it's social.
Man Ray
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
Michel de Montaigne
Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Alfred North Whitehead
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Aristotle | Art Quotes
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.




Marshall McLuhan
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.
Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
Eva Hesse
"Art doesn't last, Life doesn't last, it doesn't matter.", Eva Hesse
William Saroyan
At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
Pierre Schaeffer | Art Quotes
Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
Ai Weiwei
"The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay."
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Thomas Carlyle
Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.
Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.


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