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Art Quotes - random


Oscar Wilde | Art Quotes
All art is immoral.
A. P. Herbert
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
Martin Firrell
Martin Firrell is my favourite public artist.




M. C. Escher
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
Amedeo Modigliani
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Guillaume Apollinaire | Art Quotes
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est ? l'art de l'écrivain.
Oscar Wilde
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
Seneca the Younger
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. (translator unknown).
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Roger Ebert | Art Quotes
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.




William Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Theodor Adorno
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Louis Nizer
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer | Art Quotes
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
R. S. Thomas
All art is anonymous.
William Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Brian Eno
If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.


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