Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Beauty is a letter of recommendation that wins our hearts in advance.

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

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Music is the language that allows me to communicate with the beyond.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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It's not wrong to be beautiful; what's wrong is the obligation to be so.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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I write to define myself, an act of self-creation, in a dialogue with myself, with writers I admire, both living and dead, and with ideal readers. Because it gives me pleasure. I'm not sure exactly what purpose my work serves.

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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

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Ideas are not mute paintings on a slate; an idea, insofar as it is an idea, includes an affirmation or a negation.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn to care for them, and very soon you have a dozen.

George Steiner

George Steiner

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Literary criticism often stems from a deficit of love.

George Steiner

George Steiner

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Looking back, the critic sees the shadow of a eunuch. Who would be a critic if they could be a writer?