art Quotes

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

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“Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“All bad art comes from returning to Life and Nature, and elevating them into ideals.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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