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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient. — Elizabeth Inchbald

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother? — Christopher Moore

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. — Sol LeWitt

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did. — Stefan Bachmann

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist. — Ted Orland

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk. — Jackson Beck

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. — Alan Joshua

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. — C.S. Lewis

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant. — Art Linkletter

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! — Victor Hugo

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests — Karl Lagerfeld

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it. — Saul Williams

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts. — Stella McCartney

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment. — Art Spander

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. — Frank Stella

True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards — Dean Cavanagh

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell. — Igor Stravinsky

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. — Robertson Davies

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions. — Anne Sexton

The war brought out all the art in me. — Horace Pippin

One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist. — Heinrich Boll

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive. — Bill Watterson

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. — Jeff Koons

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent. — Christoph Martin Wieland

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. — Grant Morrison

Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing. — Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see. — Shannon L. Alder

But what is art other than revealing human nature? — Marina Abramovic

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. — Bette Davis

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. — Damien Hirst

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. — Frank Horvat

Humans make art to remember and be remembered," said Caius. "Art is their weapon against forgetting. — Melissa Grey

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many. — Norman Vincent Peale

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class — Charles Bukowski

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. — Edward Abbey

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die. — Gautama Buddha

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen. — Ruth Ozeki

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. — Moby

They're not poodles, they're art. — Rachael Leigh

Most art is just surface noise. — Walter Darby Bannard

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. — Julia Cameron

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. — Andrew Loomis

Art is a guarantee of sanity. — Louise Bourgeois

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user, — William Morris

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art. — Ang Lee

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. — Art Garfunkel

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. — Damien Hirst

The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom. — Mason Cooley

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. — William Hogarth

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. — Duane Michals

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. — Arsene Wenger

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange

I dream of you in colors that don't exist. — Leah Raeder

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own. — Gogen Yamaguchi

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! — William Shakespeare

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. — Pauline Kael

For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier

Some say art is our highest form of hope ... Perhaps it's our only hope. — Roma Tearne

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected. — Josh Groban

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance. — Jim Rohn

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight — Joshua Teya

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. — Jack Schmitt

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. — Charles Baudelaire

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. — Maria Montessori

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. — Simon Raven

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. — Vladimir Nabokov

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private. — Andy Goldsworthy

Art is born of humiliation. — W. H. Auden

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. — Norman McLaren

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet
it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. — Joss Whedon

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. — Susan Sontag

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. — Trudi Canavan

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more. — Henry David Thoreau