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Art Quotes - random


Charles Reade | Art Quotes
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
Martin Firrell
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
Jasper Johns
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.




Orson Scott Card
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
William Somerset Maugham
In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
Wendell Berry | Art Quotes
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
John Banville
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
Michel de Montaigne
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
E. E. Cummings
Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
William Blake | Art Quotes
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.




Jan Tschichold
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Charles Baudelaire
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.
John Wesley Hardrick
Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
Stuart Davis
The artist has no concern as to what the picture means.His attitude is absolute objectivity.
Anton Chekhov | Art Quotes
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Edward Hopper
Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
L. Ron Hubbard
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.


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