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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. — D.H. Lawrence

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first? — Lady Gaga

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. — Wolf Kahn

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly. — Georges St-Pierre

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself. — Stephanie Vaughn

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking. — Damien Hirst

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. — Mona Simpson

The first thousand are the hardest. — Herbert Gute

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur C. Clarke

Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause. — Henry Johnson Jr

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show. — Vsevolod Meyerhold

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. — Susanne Katherina Langer

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience. — Laurence Olivier

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary. — Clement Greenberg

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. — Martha Graham

Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports. — David Winner

First rule of restorations. Never do what you can't undo. — Donna Tartt

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. — Blaise Pascal

In art, don't you see, there is no first person. — Oscar Wilde

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time. — Aleksandar Hemon

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing — Sheldon Vanauken

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank. — Immanuel Kant

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. — Marcel Duchamp

Music was the first art form I ever had. — Robert David Hall

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first. — Francisco Goya

Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art — Solnit, Rebecca

I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. — Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. — Jacques Barzun

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it. — Roger Fry

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance — Thomas Jefferson

Every good piece of art ... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it. — John Ruskin

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. — Arthur Symons

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves. — Tom Wolfe

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater. — Stanley Elkin

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James

Peace is first of all the art of being. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey

At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him. — Joe Hill

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art. — Joseph Addison

Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything. — Bruce Lee

The subject comes first, the medium second. — Richard Prince

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler. — John Lennon

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth ... Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose. — Andre Malraux

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. — Edith Wharton

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills. — Ty Pennington

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature. — Kimon Nicolaides

To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate. — Various

I honor health as the first Muse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri ... My life began at this point. — George Bellows

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first. — Miyamoto Musashi

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. — Frederick Lenz

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty. — Ayn Rand

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota

My first memory is of light
the brightness of light
light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. — Thomas De Quincey

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law,
The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi

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

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time. — David Travis

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out. — Joe Strummer

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens. — Marina Abramovic

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. — Walter Benjamin

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

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up. — Danny Gregory

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. — Jean Racine

An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. — Chaim Potok

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. — Eric Johnston

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. — George Inness

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. — Sigmar Polke

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art. — Herbert Gold

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. — Henry Moore

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. — Siri Hustvedt

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. — Terry Teachout

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears. — Marcel Proust

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters. — William Blake

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is. — Christian Michael

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself. — Andrew Brown

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. — Patrick Marber

There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson

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

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. — Gerard Way

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple. — J.K. Rowling