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" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "

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" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

" Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. "

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. "

Georges Carpentier

" The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. "

" Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. "

" The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. "

William Hazlitt

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

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

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

William Morris Hunt

" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. "

" If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. "

" Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. "

" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "

" I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. "

" Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. "

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "