Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

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With a little imagination, you can easily live your whole life in an afternoon.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Hollywood is like being nowhere talking to nobody about nothing.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The purpose of art is to give form to the secret essence of things, not to merely copy their appearance.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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By building well, one becomes a good architect.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Eternity is one of the rare virtues of literature.

William Blake

William Blake

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I will not reason, nor compare; my task is to create.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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In a flock of white doves, a black crow adds even more beauty than the candor of a swan.

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

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My criticisms are light and without venom, because there is none in my heart, and I detest it in literature.

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

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I usually read the preface in all the books, because sometimes it tends to be the best part of the work.

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

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The art of painting consists of lightening and darkening the tones without decorating them.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.