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" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "
Steve Prefontaine
Understanding
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" If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. "
Anais Nin
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Cry
" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. "
Jim Hodges
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Process
" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "
Henry Kissinger
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Art
His
" Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. "
William Bernbach
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" The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. "
Steven Pinker
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Directing
" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "
Theodore Bikel
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" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "
John Updike
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Room
" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "
Orson Welles
Enemy
Limitations
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" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "
E. M. Forster
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Feel
Men
" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Water
" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "
Lorraine Hansberry
Art
Myself
Man
" I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. "
Darren Star
Art
Energy
Modern Art
" 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
" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art
Expression
Vision
" There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. "
Mao Zedong
Literature
Politics
Art
" This world is but a canvas to our imagination. "
Henry David Thoreau
Canvas
Our
World
" I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. "
Thom Yorke
Art
Truth
Think
" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "
Oscar Wilde
Most
World
Intense
" I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art. "
Tom Freston
Art
Always
Kind
" The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Good
Respect
Art
" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "
James Montgomery
Blue
Thou
Flower
" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "
Paulo Coelho
Nature
Life
Me
" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "
William S. Burroughs
Visual
Writing
Picture
" The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "
Pope Paul VI
Art
Life
Meaning
" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "
Tadao Ando
Hand
Art
Thinking
" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "
Donald Judd
Technical
Like
Things
" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "
Andy Warhol
See
Always
Street
" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "
Herbert Read
Informed
Sensibility
Pattern