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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

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. — Jeffrey Deitch

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. — Maya Lin

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans. — Jonny Lee Miller

Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. — Mick Ebeling

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. — Craig Ferguson

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs. — Johnny Weir

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. — David Gilmour

It is not what an artist does that counts ... but what he is. — Pablo Picasso

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. — Jerry Saltz

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind? — Erwin McManus

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. — Marty Rubin

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. — Donald Judd

What an artist finds, he finds without looking for it. — Marty Rubin

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic. — Amit Kalantri

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate. — Liam Gillick

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy. — One9

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. — Rhys Ifans

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! — Ivan Slavkov

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life? — Albert Einstein

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself. — Willa Cather

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. — Jackson Pollock

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. — Leslie Fiedler

What I dream of is an art of balance. — Henri Matisse

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does. — Mitch Albom

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. — Mason Cooley

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else. — Elizabeth Gilbert

What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. — Elizabeth Janeway

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties. — Walter Moers

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art. — Larry Gagosian

Art is an expression of inner beauty. — Debasish Mridha

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. — Damien Hirst

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. — Robert Barry

When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart. — Debasish Mridha

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 purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for? — William, Saroyan

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist. — John Fowles

What if I began to believe that the critique isn't just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art better? — Emily P. Freeman

Hey, I'm an art lover," protested Ramirez. "I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Beverly's smile froze. "Yes, quite. — Linda Morris

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one? — Swami Vivekananda

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle. — Georges St-Pierre

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. — Patti Smith Just Kids

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him. — Richard Corliss

What women do in front of a mirror with few brushes and colors is, indeed, an art. — Uday Mukerji

It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide. — Peter Davis

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. — Ala Bashir

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience? — Will Durant

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear. — Carol Hovsepian

Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed, — Spider Robinson

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see. — Milton Resnick

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like. — Lenora Crichlow

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom. — Jane Smiley

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art. — Javier Bardem

Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer. — Debasish Mridha

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. — Thomas Ruff

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert. — Dennis Sharpe

Animation should be an art ... what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade ... not an art, but a trade ... bad luck. — Winsor McCay

What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions. — Meredith Duran

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do. — Buck Brannaman

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out. — Richie Norton

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan

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

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. — F. Huegel

What an imprecise science was medicine. It was more an art than was fiction. — Graham Moore

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

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language. — Debasish Mridha

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. — Vladimir Nabokov

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. — Don DeLillo

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. — Anna Netrebko

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in
a fight. — Emanuel Lasker

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers ... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz

What has having a baby got to do with getting a job at an art gallery? You're always thinking in terms of either/or. The thing is wholeness. — Margaret Atwood

Producing what is required for the time, without damaging our inbuilt features is an art — Rajasaraswathii

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. — Alice Neel

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. — Estelle Parsons

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. — Edith Sitwell

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. — Stephen Stills

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me. — Ronnie Lott

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color. — Marc Chagall

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished. — Sophia Loren

What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous? — Nenia Campbell

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war. — Pal Benko

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. — Anita Brookner

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. — Maggie Nelson

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. — Julianne Moore