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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent
— Oscar Wilde
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
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
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 scientificpretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner
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
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
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
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
— Sophie Calle
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
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
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
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
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
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
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
— Octavio Paz
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
I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.
— Claire Bloom
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
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
