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" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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" Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. "

Frederic Chopin

" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "

" An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. "

" When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. "

" The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. "

Jackson Pollock

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

" The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. "

Richard Jefferies

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

Madame de Stael

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

Alfred de Vigny

" In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. "

" 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

" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? "

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. "

" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "

" A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. "

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. "

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. "

" Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. "

Giotto di Bondone

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. "

Black And White

" My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. "

Steve Prefontaine

" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "