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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

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. — Mario Batali

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in. — Steve Jobs

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir

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

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas

The Art of Facing Things What people have forgotten is what every salmon knows. - ROBERT CLARK — Mark Nepo

Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before ... without them noticing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger

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

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. — Seth Godin

What is art but a way of seeing? — Saul Bellow

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

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! — Victor Hugo

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. — Richard Attenborough

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

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. — Kay WalkingStick

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

The purpose of art is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

What is art? Prostitution. — Charles Baudelaire

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. — Hillary Clinton

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. — Hasan M. Elahi

Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me. — Kevin Wilson

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

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

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. — Noah Taylor

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

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. — Quintilian

Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway. — James Monaco

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images. — Peter Zumthor

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A.

This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys ... — Art Buchwald

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. — Lawrence Durrell

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. — Vladimir Nabokov

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. — Neil Gaiman

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art. — Andrew Hoberek

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects. — Hans Rookmaaker

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. — Sun Tzu

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

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

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life. — Leo Fitzpatrick

What you experience is your reality, for the time being anyway. It's a mind-blower because, at a certain level of awareness, that's not real either. — Art Hochberg

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni

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

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

What the world considers valuable is often not as valuable as what the world considers not valuable. — Art Hochberg

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. — Jewel Staite

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

Art is what separates us from the animals. — Iimani David

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. — Arsene Wenger

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being. — Dan Fogelberg

Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life. — Geoffrey Vickers

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney

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

Art is what is irresistible. — William, Saroyan

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize. — Adam Michnik

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art. — Tom Bissell

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear. — Erin Heatherton

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art. — Pierre Bonnard

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move. — David Belle

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens? — Yoko Ono

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. — Andrew Wyeth

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones. — Jean Dubuffet

Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include - like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need. — John H. Miller

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial. — Will Rogers

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

What is it?" Philip said. "I'm creating a work of confectionary art here." "Well, — Wendy Mass

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. — George Santayana

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. — Robert Henri

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. — Jack White

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin

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

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

But what is art other than revealing human nature? — Marina Abramovic

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports. — Elizabeth Price

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. — Joan Miro

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound — Duke Of Wellington

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. — Kurt Schwitters

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is. — Billy Connolly

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? — Robert Adams

Organized perception is what art is all about. — Roy Lichtenstein

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. — Tahar Rahim

Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. — Max DePree

What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations — Kurt Vonnegut

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. — Joseph Campbell

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. — Laurence J. Peter

Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don't know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The ultimate paradox of life. — Art Hochberg

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 is true stillness? Stillness in movement. — Bruce Lee

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. — Herbert Marcuse

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. — Octavio Paz