Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Horace

Horace

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Where many beauties shine, a few blemishes should not offend, from which human nature rarely escapes.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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The ones who drive and move the world are not the machines, but the ideas.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Inspiration and genius are almost the same thing.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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How! No criticism at all? No. Genius is an entity like nature and, like nature, it wants to be accepted purely and simply. A mountain is taken or left. There are people who criticize the Himalayas stone by stone! Everything in genius has its reason for being. It is because it is. Its name is the reverse of its light. Its fire is a consequence of its flame. Its precipice is the condition of its height.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Art, in itself, does not move forward or backward.

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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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The genius on earth is God who gives himself. Every time a masterpiece appears, it is a distribution of Divinity that is made to men. The masterpiece is a kind of miracle.