An artist never really finishes his work,
he merely abandons it
- Paul Valery
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Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life
- Picasso
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It's a poor artist who borrows
- a good artist steals
- Picasso
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The blacksmith and the artist reflect it in their art. They forge their creativity -
Closer to the Heart
- Neil Peart
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The defining function of the artist
is to cherish consciousness
- Max Eastman
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I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free
- Michelangelo
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself,
and dies of all others
- Albert Camus
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An artist cannot fail;
it is a success to be one
- Charles Horton Cooley
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art
- John A. Locke
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Silence is one great art of conversation
- Unknown
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose
of satisfying it afterwards
- Anatole France
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Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears
- Robert W. Sarnoff
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The art of love ...
is largely the art of persistence
- Albert Ellis
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all sience. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead,
his eyes are closed
- Albert Einstein
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, we guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark
- Agnes de Mile
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Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing
- Unknown
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Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth
- Picasso
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution
- Gauguin
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Art is the tree of life.
Science is the tree of death
- Unknown
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I went into the business for the money,
and the art grew out of it.
If people are disillusioned by that remark,
I can't help it. It's the truth
- Charlie Chaplin
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea
- John Ciardi
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We have art that we do not die of the truth
- Nietzsche
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one
- Stella Adler
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form.
It's the aim of art to give it some
- Unknown
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The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge
of its ugly side
- James Arthur Baldwin
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
- Samuel Butler
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There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form
- Francois Delsarte
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them
- Paul Hawken
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Abstract art?
A product of the untalented,
sold by the unprincipled to
the utterly bewildered
- Al Capp
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