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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.
There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.
Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.
We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.
In every Art it is good to have a master. [In every art it is good to have a master.]
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.