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Art Quotes - random


Shashi Tharoor | Art Quotes
Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
E. L. Doctorow
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.




Edgar Degas
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,? and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Winston Churchill | Art Quotes
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
M. C. Escher
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
Rabindranath Tagore
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Walter Pater | Art Quotes
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.




Louise Bourgeois
Art is a guaranty of sanity.
Michel de Montaigne
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Marshall McLuhan
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Asger Jorn
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
William Baziotes | Art Quotes
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.
David Cameron
It seems to me he has lost the art of communication; but not, alas, the gift of speech.
Marcel Duchamp
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
Bela Bartok
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.


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