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An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it. — John Thomas Sladek

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away ... I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette ... I am for an art that flutters like a flag. — Claes Oldenburg

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. — Kenneth Myers

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. — John Waters

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away. — Geri Halliwell

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling. — Fiona Apple

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup. — Art Alexakis

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth

If I was whisked away ... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off. — Arthur Boyd

Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other. — Pat Conroy

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Pablo Picasso

Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady? — Leonora Carrington

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art. — Samuel R. Delany

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia. — Lawrence Weiner

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good. — Kamal Ravikant

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art — Leonardo Da Vinci

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama. — Alix Smith

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way. — Robert Rodriguez

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! — Bryan Procter

Anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away. — Daisy Goodwin

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. — Elbert Hubbard

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. — John Green

I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. — Jennifer Egan

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie

Like you were a work of art that I wanted to lock away because no one would ever appreciate your rare beauty like I would? — Lorelei James

Art is anything you can get away with. — Marshall McLuhan

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film. — Philippe Petit

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. — Twyla Tharp

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon. — Ken Baumann

Which, in morals, leads away from superstition, Which, in politics, leads away from government, and Which, in art, leads away from Tradition. — Various

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. — Mary McCarthy

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. — Joseph Addison

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away. — Art Rust Jr.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. — Donald Judd

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. — Chuck D

Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people. — Seth Godin

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? — Alexander Theroux

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life. — Orlando Bloom

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too. — Andy Serkis

We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away. — Kelli Russell Agodon

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it, — Max Reinhardt

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds — Leonora Carrington

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy. — Lee Hammond

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. — Art Blakey

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away. — Rob Roy MacGregor

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher ... — John Constable

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him. — Patti Smith

"The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away." — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art. — Chantal Sutherland

writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself. — William Zinsser

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going. — Akhenaton

Promise me you'll never go away.
Promise me you'll always stay. — Tegan Quin

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. — Sun Tzu

Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control. — Frederick Lenz

Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment. — Tegan Quin

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up. — Tracey Emin

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it. — Dara McGrath

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

Art is running away without ever leaving home. — Twyla Tharp

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world. — Barry McGee

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object? — Rainbow Rowell

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. — Edward De Bono

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart. — John Fowles

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay. — Pierce The Veil

Art is whatever you can get away with. — Marshall McLuhan

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. — Damien Hirst

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them. — Joe Haldeman

Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life. — Art Blakey

When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray What charm can soothe her melancholy What art can wash her guilt away? — Julia London

What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous — Jeanette Winterson

Armus: 'No need for interogation if you'd tell me this earlier.'
Samarga: 'You wouldn't buy it if I gave it away without squeal. — Toba Beta

Random thoughts that fly away.
Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where they are.
Let the work of art preserve its life. — Diana Rose Morcilla

Art is what you can get away with. — Andy Warhol

All changes pass me like a dream,
I neither sing nor pray;
And thou art like the poisonous tree
That stole my life away. — Elizabeth Siddal

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. — John Frohnmayer

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away. — Fred B. Craddock

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it — Brian Eno

I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me. — Sabrina Ward Harrison