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Art Quotes by J. G. Ballard
- I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his…
- Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
- Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the…
- An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
- The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of…
- There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- 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
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov