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Art Quotes - random


Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Steve Jobs
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
Paul Klee
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!




Charles Churchill
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Osbert Sitwell | Art Quotes
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
Alfred North Whitehead
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Thomas Carlyle
Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.
Sun Tzu
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
Roy Lichtenstein
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Harold Rosenberg | Art Quotes
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.




Bela Bartok
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Madonna
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
Maria Callas
Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
Charles Baudelaire
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.
Thomas Jefferson | Art Quotes
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
Fernando Pessoa
What is art but the denial of life?
Sylvia Plath
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.


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