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Art Quotes - random


Georges Simenon | Art Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
George Bernard Shaw
To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
Tarik Gunersel
If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.




John Wesley Hardrick
Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
Sylvia Plath
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
Ezra Pound | Art Quotes
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Ai Weiwei
"I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art."
Walter Pater
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Clive James
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
John Cheever | Art Quotes
Art is the triumph over chaos.




Andre Malraux
L'art est un anti-destin.
Alain Badiou
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
Susanne Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling.
David Sedaris
If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
Mary Robinette Kowal | Art Quotes
Without passion there is no art, only technique.
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Joseph Gordon Levitt
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Poul Henningsen
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!


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