Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Each poem is unique. In each work, all of poetry beats, to a greater or lesser degree. Each reader seeks something in the poem. And it's not unusual that they find it: It was already inside them.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Architecture is the least bribable witness of history.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Poetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Imagination set free transforms the world and sets things flying.

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Charles Péguy

Charles Péguy

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A great philosophy is not the one that establishes the definitive truth, it is the one that produces unease.

William Penn

William Penn

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Those who have the heart to help have the right to criticize.

Arturo Pérez Reverte

Arturo Pérez Reverte

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I write novels to recreate life in my own way.

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Guillermo Pérez Villalta

Guillermo Pérez Villalta

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The paintings are made to be in places of meditation.

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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The ultimate function of criticism is to fulfill the natural function of disdain, which is conducive to the good hygiene of the spirit.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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Being a poet is not an ambition of mine, it is my way of being alone.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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Literature, like any form of art, is the confession that life is not enough.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.