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" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

Alexander Calder

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

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" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

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" I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. "

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

Alfred Stieglitz

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

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" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "

" I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. "

" 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. "

" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "

" Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. "

" 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. "

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" You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. "

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