Art Is Quotes
1853 quotes by 1108 authors
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
— Chinua Achebe
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
— Christian Bale
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
— Lester Bangs
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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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.
— Beck
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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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
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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
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
— Theodor Adorno
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
— Theodor Adorno
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support…
— Theodore Bikel
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
— William Blake
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of…
— Alvar Aalto
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