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Quotes About Philosophy

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.
~ Morton Feldman
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
~ Richard Armour
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
~ Salvador Dali
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
~ Frederick Sommer
My art was not an answer - it was a question.
~ Gottfried Helnwein
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.
~ Jennifer Stone
I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
~ Keith Richards
Im not trying to do conceptual art.
~ Peter Sotos
Teach the art of living well.
~ Seneca the Younger
The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.
~ Tom Robbins
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
~ Albert Camus
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Pain, thou art not an evil
~ Alexandre Dumas
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
~ Anthony Burgess
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
~ Blaise Pascal
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
~ Edward Steichen
I don't see art as entertainment.
~ Georg Baselitz
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
~ George Eliot
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
~ Harold Rosenberg
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
~ Jack O'Connell
Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?
~ Jean Baudrillard