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Art Quotes - random


Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.
Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Jean Cocteau
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.




Margaret Hughes
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
George Bernard Shaw
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Joseph Albers | Art Quotes
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Ben Jonson
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
Max Pechstein
Art is not a pastime, it is a duty with respect to the people, a public affair.
George Sand | Art Quotes
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.




Pauline Kael
Kicked in the ribs, the press says "art" when "ouch" would be more appropriate.
A. P. Herbert
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
Frank Harris
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
William Saroyan | Art Quotes
There is only good and bad art.
Rembrandt
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Thomas Warton
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.


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