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" Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. "

Edward Steichen

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" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "

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" What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. "

" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

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" I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. "

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" 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! "

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" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. "

" I am not strong on perfection. "

" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "

" Art is a harmony parallel with nature. "

" It appears to be monumental only because it's art. "

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

" Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. "

" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "

" The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. "

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. "

Laurence J. Peter

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" 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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" 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

" To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out. "

" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "