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" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "
Tomie dePaola
Art
Book
Door
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" Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. "
Alfred de Vigny
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" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "
Reed Morano
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" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "
Andreja Pejic
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" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "
W. H. Auden
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Writing
" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "
Catie Curtis
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Dance
" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "
Om Malik
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Social
" When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. "
Marc Chagall
I Am
Tree
Flower
" The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. "
Pythagoras
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Art
Good
" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "
Harry S Truman
Parasitic
Art
Criticism
" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "
Henry Moore
Most
Quality
Art
" Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. "
Fran Lebowitz
Art
Feeling
People
" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "
D. H. Lawrence
Business
Man
Reveal
" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "
Carroll O'Connor
Does
Art
Always
" Space is the breath of art. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Space
Breath
Design
" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "
W. H. Auden
Create
Artist
Work
" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "
Barbra Streisand
Good
Art
Artist
" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "
David Ogilvy
Form
Information
Art
" What is art but a way of seeing? "
Saul Bellow
Seeing
Way
Art
" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Interesting
Want
Good
" Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. "
Helen Rowland
Fault
Accomplishment
Man
" I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. "
Ernst Fischer
Want
Imitate
Art
" A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. "
Louis Nizer
Beautiful
Work
Lady
" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
C. S. Lewis
Like
Value
Friendship
" There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity. "
Rocky Carroll
Art
Longevity
Actor
" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art
Picturesque
Too
" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "
Robert M. Pirsig
Peace
Art
Caring
" Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. "
Claude Debussy
Art
Works
Rules
" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Art
Yourself
Crazy
" It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. "
Oscar Wilde
Really
Mirrors
Life
" I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. "
Clara Schumann
Work
Art
Care