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Art Quotes - random


Aldo Leopold | Art Quotes
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
Thomas Warton
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
William Baziotes
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.




Jean Fautrier
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.
Stephen Potter
The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.
Charles de Lint | Art Quotes
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Ai Weiwei
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
Ai Weiwei
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
Alain Badiou
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Ai Weiwei
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Halldor Laxness | Art Quotes
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.




Piet Hein
There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.
Wallace Stevens
The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.
Robert Rauschenberg
(art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
Mike Tyson
"The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit."
Tracey Emin | Art Quotes
I couldn't have sex with someone who didn't think was a good artist.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Sir Thomas Browne
Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
Saul Bellow
What is art but a way of seeing?
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.


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