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" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "
Lewis Mumford
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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
Teach
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Art
" Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes. "
Mark Foster
Eyes
Your
Society
" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "
Ad Reinhardt
Taken
Too
Art
" We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art. "
Chris Bangle
Just
BMW
Art
" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "
John Berger
Life
Story
Human
" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "
Madonna Ciccone
Lamp
Room
New
" The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. "
Paul Strand
Artist
Away
Feet
" 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
Understanding
People
Look
" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "
Shepard Fairey
Art
People
Language
" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "
Petra Collins
Art
Stop
Space
" Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. "
Edgard Varese
Art
Artist
Belief
" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "
Robert Delaunay
Birth
Painting
Light
" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "
Andre Gide
Art
Resistance
Overcome
" Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. "
Richard Wagner
Art
Homeless
People
" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "
Jean Nouvel
Museum
Should
Art
" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "
John Lasseter
Art
Challenges
Inspires
" Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. "
Constantin Stanislavski
Love
Art
Yourself
" Every good painter paints what he is. "
Jackson Pollock
Good
Painter
Paints
" All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. "
George Lucas
Human
You
Wall
" I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "
Tony Hawk
Fashion
Art
Music
" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "
Mark Rothko
Stillness
Purpose
Spirit
" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Gothic
Epiphany
Art
" Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. "
William Wordsworth
More
Art
Pictures
" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "
Ambrose Bierce
Thinking
Logic
Art
" Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. "
Martin Amis
Rose
Lion
Lie
" All good art is an indiscretion. "
Tennessee Williams
Good Art
Good
Art
" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "
Paul Valery
Never
Work
Really
" It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. "
Thich Nhat Hanh
Creative
Focus
Problems
" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "
Nobu Matsuhisa
Everything
Sushi
Experience
" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "
Charles Schwab
Art
Side
Museum