Art Quotes

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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available… — Charles Baudelaire
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,… — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. — Simone de Beauvoir
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. — Simone de Beauvoir
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. — Unknown Author
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. — Unknown Author
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. — Martha Beck
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? — Ludwig van Beethoven
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. — Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. — Ludwig van Beethoven
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and… — Clive Bell
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose… — Clive Bell
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer

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