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" Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

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" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "

" 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. "

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" 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. "

" The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. "

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. "

" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

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

Edward Steichen

" Trash has given us an appetite for art. "

" An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. "

Wassily Kandinsky

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

" We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. "

" Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. "

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

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "

" Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys. "

Milo Yiannopoulos

" Art and life are inseparable. "

" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "