Art Quotes
14657 quotes by 5537 authors
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
— John James Audubon
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— Saint Augustine
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
— Francis Bacon
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
— Francis Bacon
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
— Francis Bacon
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just…
— Erykah Badu
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
— Erykah Badu
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and…
— Walter Bagehot
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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
— David Bailey
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
— David Bailey
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
— David Bailey
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
— David Bailey
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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
— Philip James Bailey
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
— Ansel Adams
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
— Ansel Adams
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
— Ansel Adams
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