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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
- Pound Ezra

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
- Zedong Mao

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
- Warhol Andy

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
- Emerson Ralph Waldo

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
- Disraeli Isaac

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
- Sontag Susan

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
- Carter Angela

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
- Silesius Angelus

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- Martin Steve

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
- Vauvenargues Marquis De

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
- Stanislavisky Konstantin

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Johnson Samuel

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
- Bailey Philip James

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quinet Edgar

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
- Voznesensky Andrei

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Yu Cao

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Doren Mark Van

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
- Paz Octavio

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
- Tynan Kenneth

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- Anonymous

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
- Wilde Oscar

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
- Trotsky Leon

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Hare David

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Geldzahler Henry

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
- Eliot T. S.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Fisher Carrie

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
- Longfellow Henry Wadsworth

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- James William

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
- Picasso Pablo

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
- Wilde Oscar

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
- Gauguin Paul

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
- Rosenberg Harold

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Cather Willa

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
- Azai Rabbi Ben

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.
- Boehme Jacob

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Whitman Walt

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
- Bowen Elizabeth

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
- Gordimer Nadine

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Chesterton Gilbert K.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- Nathan George Jean

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
- Vorse Mary Heaton

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- Augustine St.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
- Sontag Susan

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
- Paz Octavio

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- Wilde Oscar

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
- Lee Bruce

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
- Kempis Thomas

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art.
- Anonymous

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
- Medawar Sir Peter

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
- Ruskin John

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
- Rowland Helen

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
- Balfour Arthur James

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- France Anatole

Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.
- Rosen Marjorie

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
- Dali Salvador

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
- Pound Ezra

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
- Quarles Francis

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
- Baudelaire Charles

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life lies in eliminating the non-essentials.
- Proverb Chinese

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Lynes Russell

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Chamfort Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
- Foucault Michel

Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.
- Hoskins John

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
- Godard Jean-Luc

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
- Blake William

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Chagall Marc

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
- Jefferson Thomas