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Art Quotes - random


John Ruskin | Art Quotes
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Paul Klee
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Alfred North Whitehead
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.




Nathaniel Hawthorne
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Voltaire
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Edgar Degas | Art Quotes
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Martin Firrell
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
Jack Thompson
No, you are not art. You are... a public nuisance. We're about to ban you. Hooah.
W. S. Gilbert
Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Tom Robbins | Art Quotes
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.




Martin Luther
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
Madonna Ciccone
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Jeff Buckley
GAP: Who is your favorite musical artist?
Brandon Boyd: Jeff Buckley
Arthur Wesley Dow
..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
Walter Benjamin | Art Quotes
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
George Sand
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.
Mark Rothko
I quarrel with surrealists and abstract art only as one quarrels with his father and mother.
Jean Cocteau
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.


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