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Art Quotes - random


Jacques Barzun | Art Quotes
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
William Saroyan
There is only good and bad art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.




Wystan Hugh Auden
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
David Lodge | Art Quotes
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
Bertrand Russell
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
Philip James Bailey
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Jean Cocteau
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
M. C. Escher
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
Keariene Muizz | Art Quotes
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.




Edgar Degas
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Steve Jobs
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
Harold Rosenberg
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
Max Beerbohm
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Ai Weiwei | Art Quotes
"Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know."
Marilyn Manson
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
William Tyndale
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Sir Thomas Browne
All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.


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