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Art Quotes - random


Guillaume Apollinaire | Art Quotes
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est ? l'art de l'écrivain.
Walter Pater
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Morihei Ueshiba
Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.




Edith Sitwell
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
John Wesley Hardrick
Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
Gwendolyn Brooks | Art Quotes
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
William Saroyan
At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
Ai Weiwei
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
George Santayana
Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.
Jan Tschichold
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Leo Tolstoy | Art Quotes
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.




Amedeo Modigliani
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
William Blake
Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?
Asger Jorn
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Henry Taylor
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Emil Cioran | Art Quotes
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
Henry George Liddell
He was the only man in Oxford among the masters of my day who knew anything of art.
Ai Weiwei
"The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay."
James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.


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