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Art Quotes - random


Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"Art is not an end but a beginning."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Ai Weiwei
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."




Osbert Sitwell
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
Anatole France | Art Quotes
En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
Mani Madhava Chakyar
“His eyes were the unrivaled wonder of Abhinaya”
- P.T. Narendra Menon (connoisseur of art), 1990
Stephane Mallarme
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
Ai Weiwei
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
Cyril Connolly
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Asger Jorn | Art Quotes
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.




Lafcadio Hearn
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Victor Hugo
Music is the vapour of art.
Charles Reade
Art is not imitation but illusion.
Bertrand Russell
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
Iris Murdoch | Art Quotes
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Luke Haines
All British artists 1988--? Just signing your name is not enough, you withered fucking idiots.
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Walter Benjamin
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.


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