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" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

Frank Capra

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Film

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

" Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. "

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. "

" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "

" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "

" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" 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

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Moment

You

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

" I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. "

" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "

" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "

" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

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

" Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. "

" In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. "

" Art is the proper task of life. "

" I love photography, and I love the art of photography. "

" I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? "

" Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. "

" Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' "

Takashi Murakami

High

Art

" If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. "

" With an apple I will astonish Paris. "

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

" There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. "