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" Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. "

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" I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

" In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press. "

" I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "

" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

" Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. "

" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "

Henry Ossawa Tanner

" Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "

" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

Lorraine Hansberry

" Art is not a thing; it is a way. "

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

" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. "

" I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. "

" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "

" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. "

" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" The art is long, life is short. "

" Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "

" The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. "

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. "

" If it's good art, it's good. "

Kenneth Branagh