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Art Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
- There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
- The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
- All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts…
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
More Art Quotes
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere — William Shakespeare