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Art

 A painting is made not by the artist but by those who look at it and grant it their favours. 
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. 
Al Capp (1909-1979)
 All art is immoral. 
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
 An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. 
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
 Architecture is petrified music. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
 Art has nothing to do with taste, art is not there to be tasted. 
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
 Art is a lie which shows us the truth. 
El arte es una mentira que nos hace comprender la verdad.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
 Art is I; science is we. 
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
 Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. 
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
 Art is the signature of man. 
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. 
Anonymous
 Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. 
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 Buy old masters. They bring better prices than young mistresses. 
Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964)
 Dada wouldn't buy me a Bauhaus. 
Anonymous
 I am a deeply superficial person. 
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
 I don't paint things as I see them; I paint things as I understand them. 
Yo pinto las cosas no como las veo, sino como las pienso.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
 If it sells, it's art. 
Frank Lloyd (1886-1960)
 In photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. 
David Bailey (1938- )
 Less is more. God is in the details. 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
 My art belongs to Dada. 
Tom Stoppard (1937- )
 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
 The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. 
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
 The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. 
Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968)
 The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. 
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
 The purpose of life is to create and to procreate. 
Anonymous
 This is either a forgery or a damned clever original. 
Frank Sullivan (1892-1976)
 True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. 
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
 Van Gogh was a painter because he had no ear for music. 
Nikki Brammeier (1986- )
 Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
 What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. 
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
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