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Art Quotes - random


Edgar Degas | Art Quotes
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Marshall McLuhan
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
George Santayana
Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.




Bertrand Russell
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Wallace Stevens
The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.
Georges Simenon | Art Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Henry St John
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Susanne Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Pauline Kael
Kicked in the ribs, the press says "art" when "ouch" would be more appropriate.
Karl Kraus | Art Quotes
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.




Epictetus
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
William the Silent
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!
John Cheever
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Claude Debussy
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
James Macpherson | Art Quotes
Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters, from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Leo Tolstoy
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Arthur Wesley Dow
Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.


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