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" Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. "
Frederic Chopin
Art
Simplicity
Reward
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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. "
Jean Cocteau
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Time
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" 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. "
Tom Reiss
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Art
" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "
Donald Judd
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Like
Things
" Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. "
Julianne Moore
Believe
Dream
Expression
" Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. "
Malcolm Forbes
Thinking
Art
Diversity
" I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. "
Arsene Wenger
Art
Target
Life
" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "
Lewis Mumford
Opportunity
Machine
Limit
" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "
William Blake
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Art
Good
" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "
William Morris
Remembered
Art
History
" What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. "
Raoul Dufy
Art
Paint
Wish
" With an apple I will astonish Paris. "
Paul Cezanne
Apple
Art
Astonish
" The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. "
Paul Cezanne
Artist
Himself
Art
" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "
Pablo Picasso
Everyday
Art
Soul
" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Mind
Ordinary
You
" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Grow
Soul
Living
" Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. "
Austin O'Malley
Art
Harvest
Imagination
" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "
Henry Louis Gates
Art
Justice
Censorship
" I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art. "
Emmanuel Macron
Commerce
Life
Business
" It's harder to do anything in the public eye now, in terms of if you're worried about scrutiny or being judged negatively. It's not as much of a free ride. If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets, and they all have an opinion. "
Andy Samberg
Ride
Art
Eye
" Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. "
Edward Hopper
Vision
Life
Great
" The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' "
Kanye West
People
Art
Creativity
" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "
Henri Matisse
Seems
Energy
Color
" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "
Patrick Duffy
Art
Canvas
Dancers
" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "
Bela Bartok
Slow
Art
Evolution
" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "
Michael Leunig
World
Sunday
Great
" 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. "
Said Nursi
Source
Art
Name
" Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. "
Guo Guangchang
Almost
Balance
Always
" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "
W. H. Auden
More
Sad
Writing
" Paint the essential character of things. "
Camille Pissarro
Things
Essential
Character
" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Body
Dies
Work