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William Saroyan | Art Quotes
There is only good and bad art.
Leonardo da Vinci
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
Northrop Frye
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.




Whitney Chadwick
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
Simone De Beauvoir
To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.
Albert Camus | Art Quotes
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Cyril Connolly
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Martin Firrell
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Stephane Mallarme
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
Louis Nizer
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Art Quotes
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.




Maxfield Parrish
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
Thomas David
How free from every thing like art were the reasonings and language of Christ.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
Robert Owen
Thou needest to be very right, Robert, for thou art very positive.
Franz Liszt | Art Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Aristophanes
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Jorge Luis Borges
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Robertson Davies
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.


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