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Art Quotes - random


Edward Hopper | Art Quotes
Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
Charles Reade
Art is not imitation but illusion.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.




Isaac Newton
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Margaret Fuller | Art Quotes
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Anonymous
It is easier to create naked art than it is to create clothed porn.
La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile.
Max Beerbohm | Art Quotes
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.




Louise Bourgeois
Art is a guaranty of sanity.
Tristan J. Loo
"A true master of peace is well versed in the art of war."
Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Friedrich von Schiller
Appearance should never attain reality,
And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
John Ruskin | Art Quotes
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Simone De Beauvoir
To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.
Luke Haines
All British artists 1988--? Just signing your name is not enough, you withered fucking idiots.
John Cheever
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is anything you can get away with.


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