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Art Quotes - random


Romain Rolland | Art Quotes
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Gottfried Helnwein
Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.
Camille Paglia
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.




Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Matthew Arnold
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
Frank Zappa | Art Quotes
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Whitney Chadwick
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
Vincent van Gogh
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Charles Reade
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Thomas Fuller (writer) | Art Quotes
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.




Robert Hughes
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Madonna Ciccone
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."
Anthony Burgess | Art Quotes
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
Brian Eno
If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.
Edward Young
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Richard Serra
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
Karel Appel
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.


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