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" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "

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" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

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" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

" Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

" I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. "

" Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. "

" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "

" With an apple I will astonish Paris. "

" I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? "

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "

" I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. "

" My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. "

" Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. "

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

" Art is the most beautiful of all lies. "

" Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. "

" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "

" Every good painter paints what he is. "

" The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. "

" I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. "

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" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

" Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. "

" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the 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. "

" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "

" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "

" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "