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Paramahansa Yogananda | Art Quotes
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Richard Wright
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Ferruccio Busoni
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.




John Tenniel
A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
Ben Jonson
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
George Bernard Shaw | Art Quotes
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
George Moore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.
Tristan J. Loo
"A young bird who understands the art of flying will still fall without feathers."
Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.




George Bernard Shaw
To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
Karel Appel
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Robertson Davies | Art Quotes
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
Arthur Symons
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
Edward Hopper
Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Grace Hartigan
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.


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