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" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "
Le Corbusier
Leaves
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Room
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" Every artist writes his own autobiography. "
Havelock Ellis
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" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "
Ad Reinhardt
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" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "
Paul Valery
Never
Work
Really
" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "
Milan Kundera
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Nothing
Value
" Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "
Jean Cocteau
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Time
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" The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. "
Henry Miller
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Waking
Mind
" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "
Emil Nolde
Religion
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" Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. "
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Dream
Beautiful
" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "
Denis Diderot
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Man
Art
" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "
Kanye West
Art
Fix
Free
" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "
Thomas Merton
Lose
Find
Art
" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "
Victor Pinchuk
Art
Will
Society
" When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. "
Paul Cezanne
Judge
Tree
Art
" The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. "
Gustave Flaubert
Writing
Communication
Believe
" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "
Honore de Balzac
Art
Detail
Silent
" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "
Colleen Atwood
Art
Street
Process
" 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. "
David Maisel
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Work
Time
" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "
A. R. Rahman
People
Music
Art
" Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. "
Truman Capote
Writing
Art
Bad
" 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. "
Kanye West
Art
Opportunity
Music
" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "
Ludwig van Beethoven
Secrets
Man
Practice
" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art
Drawing
Morality
" My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it. "
Fernando Botero
Color
Good
Painting
" The goal of art was the vital expression of self. "
Alfred Stieglitz
Goal
Expression
Art
" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Interesting
Want
Good
" Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. "
Andre Maurois
Work
Woman
Man
" 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. "
Jay Kay
Government
Tax
Me
" When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. "
O. Henry
Loves
Art
Hard
" I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. "
Michelangelo
I Am
Man
My Life
" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "
Patrick Duffy
Art
Canvas
Dancers