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" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

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" Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. "

" Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

" The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. "

" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

" All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. "

" 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. "

" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" Art is the triumph over chaos. "

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

" At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it. "

Millie Bobby Brown

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "

" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" 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

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. "

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. "

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