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Art Quotes - random


Soutar,William | Art Quotes
Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
The only way to development(as an artist) cultivating one's own innate powers.




Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
Asger Jorn
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Franz Liszt | Art Quotes
"le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
Clement Greenberg
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced. (1973)
Emil Cioran
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Northrop Frye | Art Quotes
A community`s art is its spiritual vision.




Kevin Rowland
Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
Madonna
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Raphael Soyer
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Rembrandt
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Louis Kronenberger | Art Quotes
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
A. P. Herbert
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
Thomas Warton
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
Marcus Aurelius
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.


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