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" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "
Gwendolyn Brooks
Art
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" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
David Hockney
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" Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. "
William Blake
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Never
Naked
" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "
Agnes Martin
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Mind
About
" Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. "
Peter De Vries
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Restaurants
" For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. "
Sonu Nigam
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Book
" Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop? "
Gwendolyn Brooks
World
Every Day
Day
" The art is long, life is short. "
Hippocrates
Life
Art
Short
" Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. "
Oscar Wilde
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More
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" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "
Paul Valery
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Really
" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "
Donald Knuth
" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "
Andy Warhol
See
Always
Street
" To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection. "
Jay Samit
Business
Wait
Competition
" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "
Steven Pinker
Painting
Poetry
Music
" In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. "
Marc Chagall
Artist
Color
Art
" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "
Leo Tolstoy
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Transmission
Feeling
" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "
Henri Matisse
Balance
Mind
Influence
" Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. "
bell hooks
Small Things
Art
You
" Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. "
Robert Smithson
Asking
Place
Artist
" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "
Lisa Bonet
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Beauty
Art
" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "
Shepard Fairey
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People
Language
" Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. "
Paul Klee
Us
Does
Art
" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "
John Millington Synge
Life
Art
Character
" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "
George Sand
Human
Heart
Light
" I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. "
Thornton Wilder
Way
Art
Human Being
" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "
John Updike
Boring
Art
Deep
" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "
Marcus Aurelius
Dancing
Art
Wrestling
" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "
Oscar Wilde
Flower
Beauty
Love
" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "
Anselm Kiefer
Life
Together
Illusion
" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "
Ludwig van Beethoven
Secrets
Man
Practice