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" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

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" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

Max Eastman

Process

Life

Know

" 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. "

" After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. "

" Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. "

" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

Octavio Paz

Artist

Always

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "

" If it's good art, it's good. "

" Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes. "

" The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

" For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. "

Miuccia Prada

Learning

Alive

" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

" Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

Art

Besides

Black

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

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art

Expression

Vision

" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. "

" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

" Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. "

" A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. "

" When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. "

" Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. "

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

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

" If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. "

" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "

" I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. "