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" 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. "
Jean Cocteau
Ugly
Time
Beautiful
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" A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Memory
Quality
Great
" 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
" Great art picks up where nature ends. "
Marc Chagall
Great Art
Nature
Up
" I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? "
Alain de Botton
Love
You
Society
" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "
Auguste Rodin
Need
Whatever
Art
" There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty. "
Andy Stanley
Goal
Information
Art
" Art and life are inseparable. "
Eva Hesse
Art
Life
Inseparable
" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "
John Ruskin
Hand
Man
Head
" I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. "
Albert Einstein
Artist
I Am
Art
" 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
Art
I Am
Think
" Every good painter paints what he is. "
Jackson Pollock
Good
Painter
Paints
" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "
Douglas Adams
Art
Think
I Think
" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "
Auguste Rodin
Spark
Born
Create
" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "
Willem de Kooning
Paint
Artist
Free
" We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. "
Charlie Haden
Art
World
Beauty
" When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. "
Jim Hodges
Ability
Think
Process
" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "
David Hockney
Know
Moment
You
" Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. "
Miguel de Unamuno
Meaning
Embodies
Art
" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "
Henri Matisse
Soul
Art
Newspaper
" Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. "
Norman McLaren
Drawn
Movements
Move
" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "
Theodore Bikel
Humankind
Art
Captures
" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "
Lewis Mumford
Opportunity
Machine
Limit
" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "
Emil Nolde
Religion
Beautiful
Soul
" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "
Om Malik
Spark
Art
Social
" From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. "
Marina Abramovic
Attitude
Art
Colleagues
" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "
Martin Luther
Art
Gift
God
" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "
Novalis
Work
Art
Artist
" Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. "
Marianne Moore
Gardens
Poetry
Creating
" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "
Edward Steichen
Force
Man
Photography
" An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. "
James Whistler
His
Artist
Vision