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" Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. "

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" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "

" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

" Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. "

" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "

" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

Langston Hughes

" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "

" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "

" 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. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. "

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "

" Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? "

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. "

" 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. "

" My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. "

Giacomo Casanova

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

Miguel de Unamuno

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

Edward Steichen

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. "

" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "

" There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. "

" I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. "

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope. "