Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

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Ultimately, a poem is not something that is seen, but the light that allows us to see. And what we see is life.

Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria von Weber

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Music is the true universal language.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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It is impossible to make a good film without a camera that is like an eye in the heart of a poet.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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The worst part is when you finish a chapter and the typewriter doesn't applaud.

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

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The important thing is not to have many ideas, but the timely idea in each case.

John Cage

John Cage

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I don't understand why people are scared of new ideas. I'm scared of old ones.

Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco

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Art is useless, but man is incapable of doing without the useless.

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Paul Morand

Paul Morand

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Complete works crush the reader; they kill the authors and ruin the publishers.

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Antonio Muñoz Molina

Antonio Muñoz Molina

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Traducción al inglés americano: 'Reading is the only sovereign act we have left.'