Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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They say I am a great writer. I appreciate that curious opinion, but I do not share it. Tomorrow, some bright individuals will easily refute it and label me as an impostor or a hack, or both at once.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Literature is nothing more than a directed dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Organizing libraries is silently practicing the art of criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Over the years I have observed that beauty, like happiness, is frequent. Not a day goes by that we are not, for a moment, in paradise.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I don't know to what extent a writer can be revolutionary. For now, they are working with the language, which is a tradition.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Thank you for the music, mysterious form of time.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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An intellectual is someone who says a simple thing in a complicated way. An artist is someone who says a complicated thing in a simple way.

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Valeriu Butulescu

Valeriu Butulescu

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Critics see the music and hear the painting.

John Cage

John Cage

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Art is not something that is done by a single person, but a process set in motion by many.

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José O. Caldas

José O. Caldas

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He was a writer with a great imagination: He imagined that all his books would sell.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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The art of writing stories lies in knowing how to draw from the little that has been understood about life, everything else.

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Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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Fear those who eclipse, being ugly, the beautiful.