Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
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Art Is
304 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it."
Jean Cocteau
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet, Novelist
"Art is much, but love is more."
Ruth Whitman
Poet
"In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them."
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"The end of art is peace."
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"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
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"Art is not about something, Art is something"
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"Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life."
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"Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth."
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"Art is purposiveness without purpose."
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"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
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"The highest art is no art. The best form is no form."
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"The basis of art is change in the universe."
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"All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics."
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"Any form of art is a form of power."
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"Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience."
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"No art is possible without a dance with death."
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"Art is the escape from personality."
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"Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not."
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"In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor."
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"All good art is an indiscretion."
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"We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth."
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"Art is the clothing of a revelation"
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"Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future."
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