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" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "

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" Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. "

" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "

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" My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. "

" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

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" To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. "

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" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

Gustave Courbet

" The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. "

" Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. "

" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

" A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. "

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. "

" Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. "

" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. "

Barbara Januszkiewicz

" It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. "

" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "

" Art is a harmony parallel with nature. "

" The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. "

" Art is the most beautiful of all lies. "

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

" I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it. "

" O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! "

" Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. "

" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "

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" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "

" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "

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" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

Alfred de Vigny