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Art Quotes - random


Maurice Denis | Art Quotes
I believe that art should sanctify nature.
Romain Rolland
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.




Louis Nizer
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Martin Firrell
One of the capital's most influential public artists.
Martin Luther | Art Quotes
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
James McNeill Whistler
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Jean Sibelius
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Virginia Woolf
The artist after all is a solitary being.
Franz Liszt
"le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."
Fernando Pessoa | Art Quotes
What is art but the denial of life?




Ai Weiwei
"I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art."
Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Michael Dirda
Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
Iris Murdoch
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Philip James Bailey | Art Quotes
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Michel de Montaigne
Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Ai Weiwei
"Everything is art. Everything is politics."
David Hume
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.


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