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Autobiography and memoir5 quotes
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. — Andy Warhol · 1975I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. — Andy Warhol · 1975I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly · 1938Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow. — Jean ArpBiography2 quotes
In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto GiacomettiThe artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop. — Auguste RodinPhilosophical literature2 quotes
The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom. — Friedrich Schiller · 1794We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1888Political literature2 quotes
The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes. — Leon Trotsky · 1924Comedy (play)1 quote
All art is collaboration. — John Millington Synge · 1907Commencement address1 quote
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. — Glenn Gould · 1982Historical literature1 quote
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. — Paul Klee · 1920Modernist literature1 quote
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance. — Marcel Proust · 1922Religious literature1 quote
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton · 1955