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" I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. "

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" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

Alexander Calder

" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. "

" A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. "

Joshua Reynolds

" Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. "

" Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. "

" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

" I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train. "

" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "

John Millington Synge

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

" From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in. "

" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" In art, the obvious is a sin. "

" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Art is science made clear. "

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "

" The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions. "

" 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. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

Kenneth Branagh