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" In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. "

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" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "

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" Education is the art of making man ethical. "

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" The goal of art was the vital expression of self. "

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" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

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" I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "

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

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" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "

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" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "

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

" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

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" 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. "

" If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? "

" Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. "

" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "

" Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition. "

" To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. "

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" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "

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

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" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "

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" As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. "

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" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "

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" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" Art is what you can get away with. "