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" Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. "

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" 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. "

" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure. "

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

Margaret Atwood

" An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. "

" Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. "

" All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "

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

" Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. "

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "

" Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. "

" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" Personality is everything in art and poetry. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "

" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. "

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" 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

" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "

" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "

" Painting is by nature a luminous language. "

Robert Delaunay

" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "