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" Art is the triumph over chaos. "
John Cheever
Triumph
Art
Chaos
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" The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. "
Paul Strand
Artist
Away
Feet
" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "
Sol LeWitt
Through
Ideas
Only
" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "
William Hazlitt
Life
Succeed
Well
" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
David Hockney
Design
Bus
Art
" 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. "
Kelis
Art
You
Music
" If it's good art, it's good. "
Kenneth Branagh
Art
Good
Good Art
" Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. "
Khalil Gibran
Well-Known
Art
Obvious
" The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. "
Sun Tzu
Enemy
Without
War
" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "
Kenneth Lonergan
Communication
You
People
" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Art
Witness
Job
" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Same
Spring
Art
" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "
Pablo Picasso
Purpose
Art
Life
" Art is what you can get away with. "
Andy Warhol
You
Get
Away
" When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. "
Paul Cezanne
Judge
Tree
Art
" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Soul
Adventure
Art
" Art is the objectification of feeling. "
Herman Melville
Objectification
Art
Feeling
" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "
Donald Judd
Technical
Like
Things
" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "
Andrea Bocelli
Good
Direction
Music
" 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
" Education is the art of making man ethical. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Making
Ethical
Education
" Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Day
Mean
Sleeping
" Great artists suffer for the people. "
Marvin Gaye
People
Artists
Suffer
" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "
Herbert Read
Informed
Sensibility
Pattern
" 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!' "
Langston Hughes
Beautiful
Mind
I Am
" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "
Marcus Aurelius
Dancing
Art
Wrestling
" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "
Mos Def
People
Good
Vocabulary
" In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. "
Aaron Siskind
Know
Want
You
" 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. "
Seth Rollins
People
End
Art
" I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life. "
Ron Hall
Blessed
Art
Life
" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "
Albert Camus
Freedom
Without
Others