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" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

Helen Frankenthaler

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" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. "

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

" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. "

Georges Carpentier

" Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. "

" Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. "

Helen Frankenthaler

" Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. "

" I like to learn. That's an art and a science. "

Katherine Johnson

" Every artist was first an amateur. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

Jackson Pollock

" 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

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

" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

Gustave Courbet

" An empty canvas is full. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. "

Albert Einstein

" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. "

" Space is the breath of art. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

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

" Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

Kenneth Lonergan

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "