Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die.

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W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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A poet is, above all, a person passionately in love with language.

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

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Writers are wounded beings. That's why we create another reality.

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster

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We desperately need to be told stories. As much as we need to eat, because they help us organize reality and illuminate the chaos of our lives.

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Pilar Avivar

Pilar Avivar

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Art is not to represent the beautiful, but to beautifully represent things.

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Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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The homeland of the writer is their language.

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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The poet's first task is to unmoor within us a substance that wants to dream.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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I have preferred to study books rather than men.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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Beauty is like summer fruit: easy to corrupt and short-lived.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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The act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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One should read a lot, but not many books; this is an excellent rule.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Art is born in the brain, not in the heart.

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