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She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears. — Al Stewart

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel

I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness. — Thom Yorke

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. — Richard Phillips

That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection — Michelangelo

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. — Constantin Brancusi

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs. — Herbert Read

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. — Alexander Pope

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. — William Howard Adams

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

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever. — Isadora Duncan

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. — Christian Slater

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art. — Peter Max

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Sandra Bowden

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor. — Steve Tisch

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. — Jared Leto

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better. — William Hogarth

It was like cooking, not baking. Baking took a sense of order. Cooking took a flare, a little art, a little luck. — V.E Schwab

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. — Glenn Close

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. — Robert Henri

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation ... — Aldous Huxley

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art. — Henry Miller

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self. — Jeff Koons

[ ... ] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty. — Alain De Botton

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? — Mary Cassatt

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole

There is no sense of worshipping a Guru - or anyone for that matter. — Art Hochberg

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication. — T.D. Jakes

Art is not there simply to be understood ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion. — Joseph Beuys

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity. — Subhan Zein

Art is a sense of magic. — Stan Brakhage

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy. — Doug Henning

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. — Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom. — Bruce Lee

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well. — Jaime Zevallos

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

Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have. — Louis I. Kahn

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. — Siri Hustvedt

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh. — Michael Craig-Martin

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. — Pablo Picasso

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason. — Amit Chaudhuri

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art. — Evelyn Waugh

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. — James Salter

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life. — Walter Darby Bannard

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth. — Astra Taylor

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. — Billy Joel

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

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. — Iris Murdoch

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. — John Lone

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy. — Hermann Hesse

Every great artist has the sense of provocation. — Arthur Cravan

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

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art. — Ayn Rand

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. — Daniel Pinkwater

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams. — Philip Schultz

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton

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

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. — Richard Steele

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. — Carlo Ponti

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. — Julia Cameron

Give children kindness, presence, and respect to help them develop a deeper sense of empathy. The art of seeing and meeting others as they are. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. — Viktor E. Frankl

Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art. — Bess Myerson

Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic — Antoine Arnauld

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. — Archibald MacLeish

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. — Amanda Palmer

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. — Alfred North Whitehead