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" Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes. "
Mark Foster
Eyes
Your
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" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "
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" I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. "
Michael Palin
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" An empty canvas is full. "
Robert Rauschenberg
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" Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. "
Philip James Bailey
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" The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. "
Francis Bacon
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Always
" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "
Flannery O'Connor
Both
Truth
Matter
" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "
David Bowie
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You
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" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. "
James Whistler
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" Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. "
Michelangelo
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Art
Make
" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "
Barbra Streisand
Good
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Artist
" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "
Gwendolyn Brooks
Art
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Urges
" The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. "
Ulysses S. Grant
Simple
Moving On
Moving
" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "
Jerzy Kosinski
Bypass
Art
Pause
" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "
Nicolas Cage
Lie
Art
Said
" People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. "
Megan Fox
People
Love
Me
" The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. "
Gustave Flaubert
Writing
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Believe
" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "
Oscar Wilde
Only
Our
Art
" A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. "
Henry Moore
Art
Person
Poet
" Photographing a cake can be art. "
Irving Penn
Cake
Art
Photographing
" For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Activity
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Exist
" 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
" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "
Peter Marino
Need
Eat
Art
" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "
Roy Lichtenstein
Look
Art
World
" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "
Jawaharlal Nehru
Minds
True
Mirror
" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "
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" A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. "
Ludwig Erhard
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" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "
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Everything
" In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. "
Josef Albers
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