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" The goal of art was the vital expression of self. "

Alfred Stieglitz

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" I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. "

" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

Steve Prefontaine

" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. "

" There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "

William Shakespeare

" To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

William Hazlitt

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

" In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. "

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "

" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "

" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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?' "

" The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. "

" I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. "

" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "

Carroll O'Connor

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

Tennessee Williams

" Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. "

" You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. "

Octavia Spencer

" My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. "

Joyce Carol Oates

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "

James Montgomery

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. "

" The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. "