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" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

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" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

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" 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. "

" Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. "

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

" I am not strong on perfection. "

Jasper Johns

Art

Strong

" I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great

Stick

Love

" It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. "

" An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "

Charles Horton Cooley

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Fail

Cannot

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

" We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Affirmation

Peace

Negative

" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

" We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live

Together

Fools

" Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. "

" History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence

History

Good

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

" Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work. "

" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "

W. H. Auden

Sad

Writing

" Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. "

Leon Trotsky

Insurrection

Own

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "

Diane von Furstenberg

Nature

Leaf

Art

" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "

" Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. "

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "

" Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. "

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