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Art Quotes - random


Charles Baudelaire | Art Quotes
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.
Evelyn Waugh
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
John Cheever
Art is the triumph over chaos.




Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies.
The art of life is passing losses on.
Emil Cioran
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Francis Bacon | Art Quotes
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Alfred North Whitehead
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Paul Klee
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Arthur Wesley Dow
..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
Patrick Swift
Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.
Maurice Denis | Art Quotes
...Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.




William Tyndale
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Izaak Walton
It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
John Banville
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
Gene Wolfe | Art Quotes
Almost any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says.
Beverly Sills
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Michael Dirda
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
Arthur Wesley Dow
Realism was the death of art.


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