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There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me. — Andres Serrano

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures. — Clement Of Alexandria

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. — Shannon L. Alder

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures. — Stephen King

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art ... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes ... — Mark Twain

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. — Debasish Mridha

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There were nude pictures ... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art. — Paul Reubens

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost. — Nan Goldin

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't. — Russell Hoban

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions. — Debasish Mridha

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean. — Walt Disney

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. — Pablo Picasso

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

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. — Alexander Eliot

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. — Joshua Reynolds

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. — Kevin Brownlow

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures. — Elvis Presley

Pictures must not be too picturesque. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. — George Carlin

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. — Erica Goros

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. — Marc Chagall

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market. — Annie Leibovitz

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business. — John Wayne

An empty canvas is a living wonder ... far lovelier than certain pictures. — Wassily Kandinsky

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger

I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters. — Art Alexakis

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. — Dar Williams

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures. — Giorgio Moroder

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures. — Gerhard Richter

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always. — Janet Malcolm

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint. — Chuck Berry

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette." — Jessica Simpson

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine. — Al Yankovic

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief? — Bill Jay

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures. — Brian Selznick

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid. — Madonna Ciccone

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures. — Martin Kippenberger

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting. — Crystal Renn

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art. — Gerald Brommer

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent. — Eva Mendes

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art. — Willem De Kooning

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

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures. — Ted Sarandos

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor. — Barbara Kruger

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. — Jerry Saltz

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. — Norman Rockwell

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo Da Vinci

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. — Paula Rego

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them. — Paolo Veronese