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Art Quotes - random


George Bernard Shaw | Art Quotes
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Brandon Boyd
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."




Marcus Aurelius
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Clement Greenberg
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced. (1973)
William Saroyan | Art Quotes
There is only good and bad art.
Georges Bizet
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Leon Bertoletti
Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.
Iris Murdoch
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Isaac Newton
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
John Lancaster Spalding | Art Quotes
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.




Edgar Degas
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Ai Weiwei
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
Arshile Gorky
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Wystan Hugh Auden | Art Quotes
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider ? la nature.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Alfred North Whitehead
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.


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