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" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

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" There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. "

Constantin Brancusi

" 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. "

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "

Henry Ossawa Tanner

" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "

" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. "

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "

" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "

" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

Albert Einstein

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

William Morris Hunt

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

" Art and life are inseparable. "

" People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage. "

" 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. "

" The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. "

" Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. "

" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

George Bernard Shaw

" There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "

" Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. "

Edward Steichen

" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. "

" Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. "

" The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. "

" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "