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Art Quotes - random


Lawrence Durrell | Art Quotes
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
R. S. Thomas
All art is anonymous.
Friedrich von Schiller
Appearance should never attain reality,
And if nature conquers, then must art retire.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
William Somerset Maugham
In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
Bela Bartok | Art Quotes
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Roger Ebert
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Charles de Lint
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
William Cowper | Art Quotes
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.




Jean Fautrier
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.
Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Simone De Beauvoir
To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.
Shahrukh Khan
Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world.
Karl Kraus | Art Quotes
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
W. S. Gilbert
Art stopped short at the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Nick Cave
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.


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