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- Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Art
- Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
- Marilyn Manson on Art
- Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
- Publilius Syrus on Art
- Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
- Harvey Fierstein on Art
- Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
- David Hockney on Art
- Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
- Gwendolyn Brooks on Art
- Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
- Robert Delaunay on Art
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide on Art
- Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
- Jean Cocteau on Art
- Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
- Andre Malraux on Art
- Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- Khalil Gibran on Art
- Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
- Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
- Ville Valo on Art
- Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Art
- Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
- Octavio Paz on Art
- Art is anything you can get away with.
- Marshall McLuhan on Art
- Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
- Ad Reinhardt on Art
- Art is born of humiliation.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
- Auguste Rodin on Art
- Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
- Max Beckmann on Art
- Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
- Duke Ellington on Art
- Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin on Art
- Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
- Lincoln Steffens on Art
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Theodor Adorno on Art
- Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
- Frank Zappa on Art
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
- Chinua Achebe on Art
- Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
- Henry A. Kissinger on Art
- Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
- Rita Mae Brown on Art
- Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
- Robert Motherwell on Art
- Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
- Malcolm De Chazal on Art
- Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Art
- Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- Leo Tolstoy on Art
- Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
- Jean Cocteau on Art
- Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
- John Ruskin on Art
- Art is not a thing it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard on Art
- Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Art
- Art is not living. It is the use of living.
- Audre Lorde on Art
- Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
- Isadora Duncan on Art
- Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas on Art
- Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
- Franz Marc on Art
- Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
- Henry Miller on Art
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
- Harry S. Truman on Art
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