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William Morris | Art Quotes
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.




Kevin Rowland
Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
Randall Jarrell
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Art Quotes
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Henry James
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made.
Marcus Aurelius | Art Quotes
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.




Donald Knuth
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Benjamin Disraeli
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Anthony Burgess
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
E. L. Doctorow | Art Quotes
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Brandon Boyd
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Hiromu Arakawa
Interviewer: Would you say any other manga artists have influenced you?
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.


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