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Art Quotes - random


Mary Robinette Kowal | Art Quotes
Without passion there is no art, only technique.
Marcus Aurelius
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
Camille Paglia
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.




Leo Tolstoy
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Rabindranath Tagore
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Sherwood Anderson | Art Quotes
Realism in so far as it means reality to life is always bad art.
Marshall McLuhan
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Voltaire
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
C. J. Cherryh | Art Quotes
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.




Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Jean Cocteau
Art is science made clear.
James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
George Sand
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.
Allan Kaprow | Art Quotes
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
Madonna
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."
William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
Seneca the Younger
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. (translator unknown).
Alain Badiou
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.


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