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Art Quotes - page 14


Theodore Roethke | Art Quotes
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Leon Trotsky
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.




Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Hans Hofmann | Art Quotes
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it — that is art.
Hans Hofmann
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Patrick Swift
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.
Shashi Tharoor
Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
Aristophanes
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Patrick Swift | Art Quotes
Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.




Henry Fielding
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Vincent Van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Vincent van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Theodor Adorno
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
Jeanette Winterson | Art Quotes
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Charles de Lint
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Maria Callas
Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
Karen Blixen
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.


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