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Art Quotes - random


George Bernard Shaw | Art Quotes
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Henry James
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.




Friedrich von Schiller
Life is earnest, art is gay.
Iris Murdoch
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Jeff VanderMeer | Art Quotes
It looked like lively abstract art. Symbols in search of context.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
William Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Beverly Sills
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Edward Young | Art Quotes
The course of Nature is the art of God.




Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Ezra Pound
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Joseph Conrad
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
Alfred North Whitehead | Art Quotes
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Sherwood Anderson
Realism in so far as it means reality to life is always bad art.
Maxfield Parrish
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
Whitney Chadwick
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,? and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.


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