Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Nothing possible is beautiful, only the real is beautiful.

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea when you only have one.

Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander

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Philosophy can be described as the experimental or empirical study, and the relationships that derive from the empirical with the 'a priori'.

Fred Allen

Fred Allen

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I have never been able to understand why a person spends two years writing a novel when they can buy one for $10.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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Whenever human faculties reach their fullness, they are necessarily expressed through art.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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The beauty of the fruit is in proportion to the time that elapses between the seed and the harvest.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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For an idea, it is very bad omen to be in fashion, as this implies that it will be forever outdated in the future.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Writers live off the unhappiness of the world. In a happy world, there would be no writers.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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I do not write to please, nor to displease. I write to unsettle.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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If literature could change the world, it would have already done so.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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One is not a writer for having chosen to say certain things, but for the way in which they are said.