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Art Quotes - random


Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Barbara Kingsolver
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.




Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Harold Rosenberg
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
Martin Firrell | Art Quotes
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
David Hockney
All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
Emil Cioran
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
John Ruskin
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Philip James Bailey
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Frank Zappa | Art Quotes
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.




Romain Rolland
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Harold Rosenberg
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress.
Madonna Ciccone
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."
David Hume | Art Quotes
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.
Evelyn Waugh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Marshall McLuhan
The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators.
James Jeffrey Roche
All loved Art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
Louis Kronenberger
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.


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