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Art Quotes - random


Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
Nicholas Serota
An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
Karl Kraus
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.




Virginia Woolf
The artist after all is a solitary being.
Sufjan Stevens
Art is … a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
William Osler | Art Quotes
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
John Cage
"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
William Morris
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Mani Madhava Chakyar
“His eyes were the unrivaled wonder of Abhinaya”
- P.T. Narendra Menon (connoisseur of art), 1990
Madonna | Art Quotes
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."




John Donne
Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so, when thou art gone.
Iris Murdoch
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Charles Churchill
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Richard Serra
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
Jean Cocteau | Art Quotes
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
John Dryden
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
James A. Michener
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.


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