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" Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. "

Friedrich Schiller

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" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "

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" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "

" There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. "

Friedrich Schiller

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

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

" Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. "

" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "

Angela Cartwright

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "

" The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace. "

" 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. "

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

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

Saint Augustine

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "

" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "

Timothy Olyphant

" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "

" It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. "

" The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' "

" Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "