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Art Quotes - random


John Donne | Art Quotes
Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so, when thou art gone.
Emil Cioran
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.




Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
G. H. Hardy | Art Quotes
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
Edward Young
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Jean Cocteau
Art is science made clear.
Albert Einstein
The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Jeanette Winterson | Art Quotes
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.




Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Oscar Wilde
All art is immoral.
Rabindranath Tagore
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Tristan J. Loo
"A young bird who understands the art of flying will still fall without feathers."
Richard Serra | Art Quotes
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
Isabel Bishop
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.


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