More Art Quotations And Sayings

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“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
– Allen Ginsberg

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”

– Paul Klee

“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
– Marcel Duchamp

“If critics say your work stinks it’s because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered “dangerous” but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
– Jack Kerouac

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
– Orson Scott Card

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I make art for one person and one person only. And as soon as I find that one person, I sure hope he has a lot of wall space, because he’ll be getting a lot of art from me.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
– Andy warhol

“If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”
– barbara Kingslover

“Never judge a work of art by its defects”
– Washington Allston

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
– Ansel Adams

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
– Ansel Adams

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
– Miguel Ruiz

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
– Henry Ellis

“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
– Roman Payne

“Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
– Jason Mraz

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; — not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush!
– Jarod Kintz

“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”
– Edmond De Goncourt

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.”
– Carrie Fisher

“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”
– Edmond De Goncourt

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”
– Dione Lucas

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