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Art Quotes - random


Alain Badiou | Art Quotes
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Max Beerbohm
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Peter Blake
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.




Charles Reade
Art is not imitation but illusion.
William the Silent
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!
Tom Robbins | Art Quotes
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Keariene Muizz
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Romain Rolland
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Donald Knuth
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Pablo Picasso | Art Quotes
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.




Anthony Trollope
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Jean Cocteau
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Francis Bacon
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Halldor Laxness | Art Quotes
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
Stanley Spencer
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
Marshall McLuhan
Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.
Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.


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