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Art Quotes - random


Mignon McLaughlin | Art Quotes
An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.
Aristophanes
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…




George Bernard Shaw
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Scott Adams | Art Quotes
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Maxfield Parrish
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
Frank Harris
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Jean Cocteau
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.




Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
William Morris
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Bertrand Russell
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Oscar Wilde
All art is immoral.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Clive James
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
Robert Hughes
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
William Blake
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.
R. S. Thomas
All art is anonymous.


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