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" Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.' "

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" 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. "

John Updike

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Art

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

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

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "

" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

" It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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After

Limit

" Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. "

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

Jason Reynolds

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Play

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

" The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "

" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

" This world is but a canvas to our imagination. "

" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "

" Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. "

Oscar Wilde

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Imitates

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

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

" Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. "

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

" The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. "

" One eye sees, the other feels. "

" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "

" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "

" A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. "

" Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. "