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Art Quotes - random


Beverly Sills | Art Quotes
Art is the signature of civilizations.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
Oscar Wilde
A lie is the beginning of a new story. That's why we love Art.




Emil Cioran
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Bob Dylan
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back.
David Hockney | Art Quotes
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Tom Ze
I don't make art, I make spoken and sung journalism.
Roger Ebert
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
Ai Weiwei
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
Lionel Trilling | Art Quotes
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.




Claude Monet
Water Lilies is an extention of my life. Without the water, the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Ben Jonson
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
John Dryden | Art Quotes
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Jasper Johns
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
G. H. Hardy
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
Osbert Sitwell
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.


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