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Art Quotes - random


Keariene Muizz | Art Quotes
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Wendell Berry
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
John Banville
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.




Ai Weiwei
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Henry St John
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Andre Malraux | Art Quotes
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
William the Silent
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!
Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
William Blake
The Old and New Testaments are the great code of art.
Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
Robert M. Pirsig | Art Quotes
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.




Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
James McNeill Whistler
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Nero (Emperor)
The world is losing a great artist (dies).
Patrick Swift
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.
Rainer Maria Rilke | Art Quotes
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Bertrand Russell
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
Marshall McLuhan
Art is anything you can get away with.
Archilochus
I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
Jean Sibelius
Art is the signature of civilizations.


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