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Art Quotes - random


Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.
Billy Childish
Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
Maxfield Parrish
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!




Ben Jonson
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
Karel Appel
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
Tarik Gunersel | Art Quotes
The art of dying is part of the art of living.
Andrew Marvell
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Marcel Duchamp
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Walter Benjamin | Art Quotes
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.




Oscar Wilde
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Madonna Ciccone
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Federico Fellini
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Frank Zappa | Art Quotes
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Barnett Newman
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Vanna Bonta
Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.
Edgar Degas
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
Tony Blair
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.


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