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Art Quotes - random


Virginia Woolf | Art Quotes
The artist after all is a solitary being.
Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Fernando Pessoa
Art lies because it's social.




John Cage
"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
Jan Tschichold
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Martin Firrell | Art Quotes
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Camille Paglia
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
E. L. Doctorow
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Lukas Moser
Cry, Art, cry and lament loudly, nobody nowadays wants you.
Margaret Hughes
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
Ferruccio Busoni | Art Quotes
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.




Madonna
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
Walter Pater
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Andrew Marvell | Art Quotes
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Asger Jorn
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Tom Ze
I don't make art, I make spoken and sung journalism.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.


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