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Art Quotes - random


Asger Jorn | Art Quotes
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Henry Miller
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.




Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Robert Herrick
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Jean Fautrier | Art Quotes
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.
Arnold Schoenberg
...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
William Tyndale
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
William Saroyan
Art is what is irresistible.
Matthew Arnold
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
Scott Adams | Art Quotes
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.




Marshall McLuhan
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
James McNeill Whistler
Art is upon the Town!
Alain Badiou
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
William Morris | Art Quotes
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
Ai Weiwei
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress.
Tom Robbins
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Ai Weiwei
"Everything is art. Everything is politics."


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