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Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.
George Santayana
Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.
Ben Jonson
If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.




Evelyn Waugh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Bertolt Brecht
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Paracelsus | Art Quotes
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
William the Silent
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!
Northrop Frye
A community`s art is its spiritual vision.
Richard Franck
Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
Billy Childish | Art Quotes
Artists who don't paint aren't artists.




Fernando Pessoa
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
Gustave Flaubert
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Mark Rothko
I quarrel with surrealists and abstract art only as one quarrels with his father and mother.
Benjamin Disraeli | Art Quotes
You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Louis Nizer
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Robert Hughes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.


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