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Art Quotes - random


One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Alfred North Whitehead
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…




Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Thomas Nashe
Blest is that government where no art thrives.
Frank Harris | Art Quotes
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
Tony Blair
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.
Paracelsus
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
William Congreve
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
Helen Frankenthaler | Art Quotes
Betty and her gallery helped construct the center of the art world. She was one of the last of her breed.




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every Art.
William Somerset Maugham
In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
Harold Rosenberg
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
George Moore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Clement Greenberg
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced. (1973)


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