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Art Quotes - random


Louis Nizer | Art Quotes
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Edward Young
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Bela Bartok
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.




Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Marshall McLuhan | Art Quotes
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Camille Paglia
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Barbara Kingsolver
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Whitney Chadwick
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
Wystan Hugh Auden | Art Quotes
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.




Nick Cave
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
O. Henry
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Keariene Muizz
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Fernando Pessoa | Art Quotes
What is art but the denial of life?
Andrew Marvell
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Arshile Gorky
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Beverly Sills
Art is the signature of civilizations.


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