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" For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. "

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" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "

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" Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. "

Robert Delaunay

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

" Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. "

Boris Pasternak

" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. "

" Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. "

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

" 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

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

" The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. "

Richard Jefferies

" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

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

" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

Herman Melville

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" Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. "

Stephen Sondheim

" This world is but a canvas to our imagination. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. "

" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "

Jackson Pollock

" The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. "

" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "

" I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. "

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

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

Honore de Balzac

" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "