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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 foolArt 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
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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
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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
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
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
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
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few preparedto 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
