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A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri

Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA. — Houston Alexander

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life. — Edvard Munch

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings. — Frederick Lenz

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. — Rebecca West

Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art. — Marilyn Minter

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

The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be? — Hal Duncan

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones. — E. M. Forster

I'm not a habitual practitioner of the art of face-painting. — Akiko Higashimura

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word. — Mstislav Rostropovich

Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! — William Shakespeare

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling. — Danielle Ellison

Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint. — Francis Bacon

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I. — Pablo Picasso

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people. — Wynton Marsalis

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs? — Constantin Brancusi

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — Fernando Pessoa

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. — Jean Cocteau

If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do — Madeleine K. Albright

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. — Stanley Kubrick

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world? — Martin Firrell

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? — Piet Mondrian

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing. — Patti Smith

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. — Herbert Read

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art. — David Elliott

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dali

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved. — Denis Dutton

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are. — Philipp Meyer

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage

O delicious kiss,
Why thou so sudden art gone?
Lost in the moment thou art won? — John Wolcot

Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What does thou with thy best apparel on? — William Shakespeare

Tell him why I didn't stop, Marcus." The art dealer sighed. "You never said anything about butterflies, you moron. — Joey W. Hill

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book? — Sean Hinn

Help me....Hellmouth, oh where art thou, hellmouth? Why have you forsaken me in my hour of desperation? Open quick and I'll throw myself in. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? — Philip Johnson

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. — David Elliott

We are all a bunch of human-shaped wounds on each other's hearts. And that is why art exists. — Erin Van Vuren

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature? — Dan Simmons

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. — Andy Warhol

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw? — Banksy

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art. — Charles Simic

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to. — Charlotte Eriksson

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists. — George Bernard Shaw

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness? — Willa Cather

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars. — Orson Welles

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why. — Neal Shusterman

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. — Chael Sonnen

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it. — Conor Oberst

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile? — Shawn Lukas

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why. — Jim McKelvey

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. — P.D. James

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. — Marie Laurencin

Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country. — C.S. Lewis

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery. — Samuel Barnett

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known. — Joseph De Maistre

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student. — John F. Carlson

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself? — Mahatma Gandhi

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can't; — Jack London

The world is divine because the world is inconsequential. That is why art alone, by being equally inconsequential, is capable of grasping it. — Albert Camus

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. — Mark Rothko

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now. — Gage Taylor

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing. — Tony Scott

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings. — Josh Smith

Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some — Jane Hirshfield

That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living. — Kate Lord Brown

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that. — Carrie Coon

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? — Cecil B. DeMille

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory. — James Roby

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry. — Michael Craig-Martin

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport. — Garry Kasparov

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words. — Amy King

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... — Iris Murdoch

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?'
'Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so. — Gwendoline Riley

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor. — Ed Parker

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art. — Virginia Woolf

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. — Corita Kent

Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy. — Thomas A Kempis

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us? — Jacob Epstein

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. — Pablo Picasso

Great art is difficult," Caleb said. After a few moments, he said, "But I don't understand why it has to be so difficult sometimes. — Kevin Wilson

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen. — Elle Fanning

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of. — Dave Cooper

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch? — Hugo Ball

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either. — Damien Hirst

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors? — Steven Wright

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant? — Virginia Woolf

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker