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Roger Bacon | Art Quotes
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bk. II, Observations in the Minset of the Wanderer: Art, Ethics, Nature
Camille Paglia
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.




Genco Gulan
Art shouldn’t be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.
Guillaume Apollinaire
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est ? l'art de l'écrivain.
Georges Simenon | Art Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Susan Sontag
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
William Shakespeare
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Morris
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Albert Camus
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Camille Paglia | Art Quotes
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.




Marshall McLuhan
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Aristophanes
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Donald Knuth
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Steve Jobs
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
Vanna Bonta | Art Quotes
Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.
Tracey Emin
I couldn't have sex with someone who didn't think was a good artist.
Andre Malraux
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
William Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.


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