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The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD — Kate Atkinson

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

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper

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

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

Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. — Marcus Aurelius

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

My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life ... 2 things you need ... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one. — Carlos Barrios

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. — Albert Einstein

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid. — Michael Welch

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk

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

I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star. — David Cross

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

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong. — Nathan Sawaya

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone. — Elvis Presley

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. — Jack Beal

A little knowledge can go a long way. — Jenny Holzer

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall

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

In the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art. — Mark Doty

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A.

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

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god. — Robert A. Heinlein

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. — Marsha Norman

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island — C.B. Murphy

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. — Louis Nizer

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown — Khalil Gibran

Happiness is an angel with a serious face — Amedeo Modigliani

Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order. — Shannon L. Alder

Filmmaking can be a fine art. — Terri Windling

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. — Michelangelo

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time. — Art Alexakis

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art. — Halle Berry

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis. — Henri Murger

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. — Madonna Ciccone

Despite its scientific
pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process. — Art Alexakis

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art. — Christoph Waltz

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. — Archilochus

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. — Asger Jorn

They say the average person can't make a living in art ... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. — George Sutherland

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks

My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art. — E.L. James

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle

With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war. — John Fusco

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. — Dorothea Tanning

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time. — Jhoon Goo Rhee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits. — Wojciech Kurtyka

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. — John Dryden

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. — Louise Bourgeois

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health. — Kenneth Goff

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. — David Alfaro Siqueiros

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. — Sara Sheridan

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art. — Paul Valery

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush. — Lizzy Grimm

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me. — Yoko Ono

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman. — Claire Bloom

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else. — Joe Murray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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