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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Louise Bourgeois
Art is a guaranty of sanity.
Genco Gulan
Art shouldn’t be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.




Vincent van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Peter Blake
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
Thomas Jefferson | Art Quotes
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.
Jorge Luis Borges
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
Ai Weiwei
"Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know."
Bertolt Brecht | Art Quotes
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.




Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,? and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Thomas Nashe
Blest is that government where no art thrives.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Anais Nin
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every Art.
Marshall McLuhan
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Lukas Moser
Cry, Art, cry and lament loudly, nobody nowadays wants you.
Joseph Gordon Levitt
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.


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