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William Shakespeare | Art Quotes
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every Art.
William Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.




Tom Robbins
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Tom Robbins
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Epictetus | Art Quotes
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
Aldo Leopold
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Oliver Goldsmith | Art Quotes
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.




John Milton
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!
Seneca the Younger
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. (translator unknown).
Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Brandon Boyd
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Bruce Lee | Art Quotes
His martial art skills made Lee arguably the greatest martial artist of his time — or any other.
Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Robert M. Pirsig
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
Making... an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology.


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