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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

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art — John Gruber

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

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity. — Bruce Lee

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

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art. — Kenyon Cox

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime. — George Barr

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

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. — Sun Tzu

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

A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws. — Dean Koontz

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

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature. — Immanuel Kant

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do. — Justin Chon

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. — Aristotle.

Chus Martinez is a transsexual collective phantom. Anybody can be Chus Martinez! — Chus Martinez

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

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. — Stephen Rea

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art. — Dalai Lama

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 do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. — Max DePree

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. — Sol LeWitt

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. — Jack Bowman

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

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. — Paul Strand

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people. — Jan Murray

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

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. — Fiore Dei Liberi

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. — Edwin Louis Cole

There is no release
In 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

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory. — Tom Rachman

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

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality. — Thomas Hoving

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

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford

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

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form. — Iris Apfel

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings. — Josh Smith

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

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can't; — Jack London

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy. — Rashad Evans

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy