Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The idea that does not try to become a word is a bad idea, and the word that does not try to become an action is a bad word.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The criticisms will not be pleasant, but they are necessary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The happy and blissful life is the sole object of all philosophy.

Doménico Cieri Estrada

Doménico Cieri Estrada

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To notice life while living it, to catch a glimpse of its relentless greatness, to enjoy the time and the people who inhabit it, to celebrate life and the dream of living, that is its art.

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Doménico Cieri Estrada

Doménico Cieri Estrada

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Art is a pause, an encounter of sensibilities.

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Doménico Cieri Estrada

Doménico Cieri Estrada

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Poetry has no time, the one who reads it rescues it, makes it present, and then returns it to its eternity.

Doménico Cieri Estrada

Doménico Cieri Estrada

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If there were no music in the afterlife, it would have to be imported.

Doménico Cieri Estrada

Doménico Cieri Estrada

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There is the sumptuous stage of life for those who know how to look a little.

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Doménico Cieri Estrada

Doménico Cieri Estrada

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The artist is always a pursuer of beauty.

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Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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There is no work that does not turn against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland

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And for a moment I have felt that perhaps an idea is more important than the mere fact of being alive, because an idea lives long after one has disappeared.