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" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "
Edward Steichen
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" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "
Martin McDonagh
Art
You
Moments
" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "
Maya Angelou
Poetry
Art
Writing
" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "
Wendy Carlos
Best
Nice
Surprise
" The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. "
Hillary Clinton
Politics
Art
Challenge
" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man
Great
Great Man
" I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. "
Barbara Hepworth
Body
See
I Feel
" I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions. "
Chance The Rapper
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People
Goal
" I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. "
Richard Avedon
I Think
Think
Art
" What is art but a way of seeing? "
Saul Bellow
Seeing
Way
Art
" The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. "
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Arts
World
Art
" A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. "
Michael Heizer
People
Work
Art
" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "
Henry Moore
Most
Quality
Art
" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "
William Blake
Art
Life
Tree
" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "
Jean Nouvel
Museum
Should
Art
" Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. "
Alfred de Vigny
Except
Beauty
Ideal
" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "
Edmund Burke
Theory
Creation
Art
" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "
Elia Kazan
Someone
Others
Dare
" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "
Morihei Ueshiba
Peace
Art
Yourself
" From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in. "
Anthony Joshua
Training
War
Yourself
" Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. "
Henri Matisse
Art
Making
Drawing
" The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. "
Wale
You
Rapper
Look
" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "
Tomie dePaola
Art
Book
Door
" All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' "
Gloria Estefan
Rest
Love
Life
" A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. "
Edward Steichen
Kind
Perfect
Photograph
" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "
Aristotle
Thought
Action
Aim
" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Service
Wish
Art
" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "
Samuel Johnson
Uniting
Poetry
Pleasure
" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "
Bono
Ugliness
Art
Chase
" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "
Khalil Gibran
Art
Wash
Silence
" In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife. "
Carl Honore
Culture
Art
Food