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Donald Knuth | Art Quotes
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Emil Cioran
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Maurice Denis
I believe that art should sanctify nature.




Oliver Goldsmith
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Matthew Arnold | Art Quotes
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
Gerhard Richter
My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Alfred North Whitehead
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Thomas Jefferson
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.
Sol LeWitt | Art Quotes
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.




Robert Hughes
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Ayn Rand
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Isabel Bishop
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
Ad Reinhardt | Art Quotes
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Colin Powell
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is anything you can get away with.


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