Art Quotes

• "The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so?"
  By: Unknown
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• "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
  By: Unknown
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• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion."
  By: Pierre-August Renoir
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• "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
  By: Pablo Picasso
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• "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
  By: Pablo Picasso
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• "I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it."
  By: Miguel de Cervantes
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• "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
  By: G K Chesterton
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• "Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
  By: Cicero
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• "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
  By: Thomas Wolfe
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• "The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."
  By: T S Eliot
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• "All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
  By: G K Chesterton
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• "Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
  By: Vincent Van Gogh
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• "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
  By: Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
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• "The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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