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Art Quotes - random


Oscar Wilde | Art Quotes
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Karl Kraus
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
George Sand
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.




Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
Gwendolyn Brooks | Art Quotes
Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.
Arshile Gorky
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Michael Dirda
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Lafcadio Hearn
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
William Saroyan | Art Quotes
There is only good and bad art.




James McNeill Whistler
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Marshall McLuhan
Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
Martin Firrell | Art Quotes
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
Susanne Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling.
W. S. Gilbert
Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
Eva Hesse
"Art doesn't last, Life doesn't last, it doesn't matter.", Eva Hesse
Robert M. Pirsig
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.


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