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Art Quotes - random


Georges Simenon | Art Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made.
Joseph Conrad
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.




Julia Cameron
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.
Susan Sontag
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Art Quotes
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Lionel Trilling
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
Fernando Pessoa
What is art but the denial of life?
Louis Nizer
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
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.




Arshile Gorky
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
William Blake
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.
Allan Kaprow
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Jacob Bronowski
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Joseph Albers | Art Quotes
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
Thomas Jefferson
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.
Sandra Bernhard
My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.
Robert Rauschenberg
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)
Karel Appel
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.


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