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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap. — Marcel Duchamp

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. — Eric Drooker

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world. — Jimmy Buffett

Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly. — Jan Zwicky

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. — Graham Nelson

Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world. — Laura Argiri

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch

Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel — John Paul Warren

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 fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit. — Sylvester Stallone

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. — Jacques Barzun

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. — Martin Scorsese

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard

The art the wealthy use in business is to jump. — Ehab Atalla

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. — Nick Flynn

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis. — Theo Van Doesburg

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

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple ... — Carlson Gracie

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication. — Vernon Reid

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts. — Stephen Graham

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. — Malcolm McLaren

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. — Anton Ehrenzweig

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. — D.H. Lawrence

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art. — Gillian Wearing

Alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. — Elizabeth Inchbald

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. — Hermann Hesse

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books. — Scott Sigler

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. — Piet Mondrian

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. — Anthony Trollope

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm. — Henry Miller

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art. — Peggy Guggenheim

Art and architecture
all the arts
do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd

Everything in life goes back to the basics. — Kron Gracie

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art. — Helen DeWitt

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things. — Dominique Swain

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art — Jean Sibelius

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work — Sol LeWitt

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways. — Sun Tzu

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough. — Samuel Johnson

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. — Jerry Saltz

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. — Shea Hembrey

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. — Ovid

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever
what thou art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much
music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. — Perrey Reeves

References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual — Dan Brown

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. — Carl Jung

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone. — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. — Howard Rheingold

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression. — Criss Jami

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail — James Gleick

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. — Henri Matisse

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. — Martin Ritt

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

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. — Robert Smithson

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation. — Edith Wharton

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them. — Gustave Courbet

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. — Lance Morrow

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. — David Hilbert

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. — David R. Brower

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired. — Edmund Phelps

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career. — Orhan Pamuk

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. — Roy Lichtenstein

Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker

I am the soul in limbo. — Andre Breton

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline. — Ian Rankin

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people. — Ralph Fiennes

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.' — Sarah Brightman

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart — Edvard Munch

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp

In the domain of art there is no light without heat. — Victor Hugo

The war brought out all the art in me. — Horace Pippin

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. — Grant Morrison

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form. — Abe Ajay

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"
"I'm going to remember. When there was art. — Francesca Lia Block

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. — Erik Parker

What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence. — Nora Roberts

To excel in the art of domestic argument, one must master the art of losing. — Gerry Spence

Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself. — Raneem Kayyali

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — Zephyr Teachout

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in. — Conor McGregor

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life. — Judith Thurman

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido. — Joseph Jarman

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. — Janet Fitch

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over. — Doug Aitken

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. — Douglas Sirk

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow. — Jennifer New

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are. — Laird Barron