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Art Quotes - random


Bertolt Brecht | Art Quotes
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Stephen Potter
The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.
Marshall McLuhan
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.




Marshall McLuhan
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Craig Ferguson
Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.
John Kenneth Galbraith | Art Quotes
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Frida Kahlo
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Robertson Davies
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
David Lodge
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
Philip James Bailey | Art Quotes
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.




Pauline Kael
Kicked in the ribs, the press says "art" when "ouch" would be more appropriate.
Martin Firrell
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Vincent Van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Joseph Albers
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
Thomas Warton | Art Quotes
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
David Hume
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.
Iris Murdoch
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Charles Reade
Art is not imitation but illusion.


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