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Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me. — Kendrick Lamar

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. — Anthony Marais

Economy is the art of making the most of life. — Gary Becker

Making our art, we make artful lives. — Julia Cameron

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

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground. — Sun Tzu

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash. — Art Linkletter

We're making this movie up as we go along. And we don't know how it ends or even if it does end. — Art Hochberg

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. — Rachel Kushner

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done. — James M. Barrie

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80. — Anish Kapoor

The goal of art-making in general is communication. — Will Cotton

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. — Norah Jones

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt. — Paula McLain

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films. — Max Tundra

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it's one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn't exist. — August Kleinzahler

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. — Hillary Clinton

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. — Hasan M. Elahi

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. — Ambrose Bierce

My life is too short to focus on legislation when I could be making art. So I'm not a copyright reformer, I'm a copyright abolitionist. — Nina Paley

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making. — Eula Biss

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. — Cass McCombs

Art consists in making others feel what we feel. — Fernando Pessoa

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. — Ben Sollee

Don't think about making art ... — Andy Warhol

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

The art of decision making includes the art of questioning. — Pearl Zhu

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. — Peter Wright

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. — Peter Beard

Making children happy is the best art. — Marty Rubin

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist. — Seth Godin

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. — Sol LeWitt

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. — Zoe Kravitz

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. — David Sedaris

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. — Paddy Mitchell

When you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most. — Marion Dane Bauer

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. — G.I. Gurdjieff

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. — Henry Moore

An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it. — Christopher Moore

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into — John Frusciante

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant — Samuel Johnson

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. — Jonathan Swift

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

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die. — Sean Kinney

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. — Julia Cameron

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you - energy begets energy. — Adachi Zenko

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely. — Jenny Holzer

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. — Nobu Matsuhisa

What matters in art is not thinking but making. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. — Bill T. Jones

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about. — Don Ed Hardy

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate. — Nick Mason

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. — Frank Zappa

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money? — Francis Ford Coppola

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. — David Crabb

Real success is making art your whole life. — Kay WalkingStick

I don't like watching people work if they're making art. — David Duchovny

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. — Logan Pearsall Smith

The art of making art, is putting it together ... — Stephen Sondheim

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought. — Bennett Cerf

The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little. — Booker T. Washington

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. — Stephen Metcalf

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. — Henry Flynt

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. — Paul Beatty

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible. — Evan Esar

Animation should be an art ... what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade ... not an art, but a trade ... bad luck. — Winsor McCay

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science. — Pearl Zhu

Love-making is an art which must be studied. — Ivor Novello

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art. — John Hughes

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it. — Jeff Koons

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist. — Ryan McGinley

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. — Helen Rowland

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. — Ilya Kabakov

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt — Christian Boltanski

The noblest art is that of making others happy — P.T. Barnum

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. — Robert Rauschenberg

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. — Jock Sturges

The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art. — Charles Sovek

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice. — Quentin Crisp

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too. — Claes Oldenburg

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ... — Marie Bashkirtseff

Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole. — Tove Jansson

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity. — Sean Lennon

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else. — Pete Wentz

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. — Nell Irvin Painter

You'll pay for making Genos look like modern art! Lead the way! — ONE