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Art Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
- Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable…
- The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
- Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
- Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
- I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
- great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me…
- beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is…
- escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll…
- After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
- A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
- the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top…
- To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
More Art Quotes
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov