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Art Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and…
- Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the…
- In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
- I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire
- I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against…
- What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
- If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not…
- Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to…
- I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
- In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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