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Henry George Liddell | Art Quotes
He was the only man in Oxford among the masters of my day who knew anything of art.
Ralph Richardson
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
Andrew Marvell
Art indeed is long, but life is short.




Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Asger Jorn
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Robert Hughes | Art Quotes
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Ad Reinhardt
Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.
Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Robert Owen
Thou needest to be very right, Robert, for thou art very positive.
Denise Levertov | Art Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Ai Weiwei
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
William Saroyan
Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.
Oscar Wilde | Art Quotes
A lie is the beginning of a new story. That's why we love Art.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Rabindranath Tagore
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Anonymous
It is easier to create naked art than it is to create clothed porn.
Jonathan Franzen
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.


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