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" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. "

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" I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.' "

" Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. "

" The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. "

" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "

" In art, the obvious is a sin. "

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. "

" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" 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. "

" Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' "

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" There is nothing new in art except talent. "

" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "

" It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time. "

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" 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. "

" Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. "

Karen Salmansohn

" Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. "

" 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

" For me, I see filmmaking as art. "

" Baking is both an art and a science. "

" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "

Madonna Ciccone

" Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. "

" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" 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

" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "

" Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "