Showing posts with label famous art quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label famous art quotes. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2009

Quotes on Art...


Art Quotes

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the
world has known."
- Oscar Wilde
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"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than
the heart can inspire."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the
same time."
- Thomas Merton
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
- Twyla Tharp
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"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin
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"All art requires courage."
- Anne Tucker
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"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the
world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else."
- Michael Vitale
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
- Leonardo da Vinci
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"Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks
as a painting in a museum."

- Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

- Oscar Wilde
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"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living
so there's no end to it."

- Henry Moore
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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

- Jackson Pollock