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There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
— Terry Tempest Williams
It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.
— James Elkins
Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)
— Susan Sontag
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
— John Paul Caponigro
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
— Margaret Fuller
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
— Mona Simpson
Literature is art and art is about passion. It's about drive. It's about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it?
— Kristen Ashley
Art's role (like philosophy's) is not to criticize reality but to change it; and little change can be effected if art remains a cloistered domain.
— Richard Shusterman
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
— C.S. Lewis
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty
— Andrei Tarkovsky
It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'
— Matthew McConaughey
Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
— Alex Scally
If you let your heart rule you, you'll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom.
— Art Hochberg
An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way.
— Marty Rubin
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
— Miles Davis
Childhood can be a scary experience, depending on who is doing the caring and how daring the caring.
— Art Hochberg
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.
— Garry Kasparov
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
— Harold Rosenberg
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
— Jonathan Lethem
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
— Clive Barker
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
— William Blake
People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
— Nikki S. Lee
To be an artist today is such an act of faith: nothing can come back from it except the satisfaction of the art itself.
— Truman Capote
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
— Jenny Holzer
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
— Thomas Jefferson
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.
— Film Crit Hulk!
Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.
— Will Shetterly
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
— Aharon Appelfeld
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art ...
— Michael Kimmelman
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
— Julia Cameron
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
— Edward Steichen
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
— Sebastiao Salgado
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
— Terry Eagleton
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
— William, Saroyan
You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
— Nobuyoshi Araki
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
— Federico Fellini
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
— Patrick Kavanagh
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
— Grandma Moses
Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.
— Kay WalkingStick
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
— Agnes Repplier
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Notice I did not say what people can dowhat we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. — Max DePree
Fuck me, how a woman can be so transparent and so full of shit at the same time is beyond me, but, baby, you got it down to an art
— Kristen Ashley
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
— Edward Hopper
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
— Edwin Louis Cole
There is no releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
— Gustave Flaubert
I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.
— Robert Helpmann
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
— Michael Heizer
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
— Steve Prefontaine
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
— Terri Windling
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
— Rita Mae Brown
Great art can only be created out of love.
— James A. Baldwin
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
— Meher Baba
Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?
— Hugo Ball
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 be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
— Kathleen Hanna
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
— Andrea Riseborough
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.
— Susan Sontag
But of works of art little can be said.— Robert Louis Stevenson
Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.
— Zachary Thomas Dodson
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
— Alan W. Watts
Living well is an art which can be developed.
— Maya Angelou
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
— David Mamet
