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Al Capp	Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sol...
Albert Camus	All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ri...
Albert Camus	Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the r...
Albert Einstein	True art is characterized by an irresistible urg...
Alexander Calder	I paint with shapes....
Alexander Eliot	So-called art restoration is at least as tricky ...
Ambrose Bierce	Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surface...
Ambrose Bierce	Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without...
Amy Lowell	Art is the desire of a man to express himself, t...
Anais Nin	If you do not breathe through writing, if you do...
Andre Gide	Art begins with resistance - at the point where ...
Andre Gide	Art is a collaboration between God and the artis...
Andy Warhol	An artist is someone who produces things that pe...
Andy Warhol	Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ev...
Andy Warhol	Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes....
Andy Warhol	I am a deeply superficial person....
Andy Warhol	I like boring things....
Andy Warhol	I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enou...
Ansel Adams	Not everybody trusts paintings but people believ...
Ansel Adams	The negative is comparable to the composer's sco...
Ansel Adams	There are no rules for good photographs, there a...
Ansel Adams	You don't take a photograph, you make it....
Aristotle	The aim of art is to represent not the outward a...
Arthur Fellig	When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond ...
Auguste Rodin	I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever...
Auguste Rodin	I invent nothing, I rediscover....
Auguste Rodin	Inside you there's an artist you don't know abou...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens	What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ...
Barbra Streisand	I've been called many names like perfectionist, ...
Benita Valente	Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. I...
Bernadette Peters	You've gotta be original, because if you're like...
Bette Midler	I always try to balance the light with the heavy...
Carl Rogers	The very essence of the creative is its novelty,...
Cecil Beaton	Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anyt...
Charles Baudelaire	Everything that is beautiful and noble is the pr...
Charles Horton Cooley	An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one...
Charles Horton Cooley	One should never criticize his own work except i...
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt	Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite j...
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt	We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives a...
Cindy Sherman	I didn't have any interest in traditional art....
Claes Oldenburg	I am for an art that is political-erotical-mysti...
Cyril Connolly	The artist one day falls through a hole in the b...
Dale Carnegie	The essence of all art is to have pleasure in gi...
Daphne du Maurier	All autobiography is self-indulgent....
David Hockney	Anything simple always interests me....
David Hockney	The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you...
Diane Arbus	A photograph is a secret about a secret. The mor...
Donal Henahan	The irrepressible spirit that made his playing s...
E. B. White	Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates...
Edgar Degas	Painting is easy when you don't know how, but ve...
Edgard Varese	An artist is never ahead of his time but most pe...
Edmond de Goncourt	A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opi...
Edward M. Forster	To make us feel small in the right way is a func...
Edward M. Forster	Works of art, in my opinion, are the only object...
Edward Steichen	Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a...
Edward Steichen	Photography is a major force in explaining man t...
Edward Steichen	Photography records the gamut of feelings writte...
Edward Steichen	When that shutter clicks, anything else that can...
Edward Steichen	You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thi...
Elbert Hubbard	Art is not a thing; it is a way....
Elbert Hubbard	The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by ch...
Ellen Barkin	Acting is a matter of giving away secrets....
Ellen Key	The more horrifying this world becomes, the more...
Elmer G. Letterman	You can't start at the top....
Emile Zola	The artist is nothing without the gift, but the ...
Erica Jong	Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage...
Erma Bombeck	Great dreams... never even get out of the box. I...
Eugene Delacroix	The artist who aims at perfection in everything ...
Federico Fellini	All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oy...
Fran Lebowitz	Andy Warhol made fame more famous....
Fran Lebowitz	Very few people possess true artistic ability. I...
Frank Lloyd Wright	Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-f...
Frank Lloyd Wright	The physician can bury his mistakes, but the arc...
Frank Sinatra	May you live to be 100 and may the last voice yo...
Friedrich Nietzsche	The essence of all beautiful art, all great art,...
George Bernard Shaw	Without art, the crudeness of reality would make...
George Moore	A great artist is always before his time or behi...
George Santayana	An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of th...
Georgia O'Keeffe	I found I could say things with color and shapes...
Georgia O'Keeffe	It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to ref...
Georgia O'Keeffe	Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against t...
Gertrude Stein	A writer should write with his eyes and a painte...
Gilbert K. Chesterton	Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful p...
Gilbert K. Chesterton	Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line...
Gilbert K. Chesterton	Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and ...
Gore Vidal	For half a century photography has been the "art...
Gustave Flaubert	Of all lies, art is the least untrue....
Helen Hayes	I cry out for order and find it only in art....
Hendrik Willem Van Loon	The arts are an even better barometer of what is...
Henri Cartier-Bresson	The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lig...
Henri Matisse	A picture must possess a real power to generate ...
Henri Matisse	Drawing is like making an expressive gesture wit...
Henri Matisse	I don't paint things. I only paint the differenc...
Henri Matisse	I have always tried to hide my efforts and wishe...
Henri Matisse	I have been no more than a medium, as it were....
Henri Matisse	Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul....
Henri Matisse	It is only after years of preparation that the y...
Henri Matisse	Time extracts various values from a painter's wo...
Henri Matisse	What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity ...
Henri Matisse	You study, you learn, but you guard the original...
Henry Havelock Ellis	Every artist writes his own autobiography....
Henry Mille	The artist is the opposite of the politically mi...
Henry Moore	A sculptor is a person who is interested in the ...
Henry Moore	It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to s...
Henry Ward Beecher	Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and...
Howard Dietz	Composers shouldn't think too much - it interfer...
Hugh Casson	Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the ma...
Isaac Bashevis Singer	Every creator painfully experiences the chasm be...
Isaac Bashevis Singer	I don't invent characters because the Almightly ...
Jean Cocteau	Art produces ugly things which frequently become...
Jenny Holzer	The most profound things are inexpressible....
Joan Rivers	Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anyt...
John Ciardi	Modern art is what happens when painters stop lo...
John Gregory Dunne	Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like...
John LeCarre	Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Ou...
John Ruskin	Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, an...
John Updike	The refusal to rest content, the willingness to ...
John Updike	What art offers is space - a certain breathing r...
Jonathan Swift	Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to...
Josh Billings	About the most originality that any writer can h...
Josh Billings	Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but id...
Judith Thurman	This is the river of the great 19th-century land...
Jules Feiffer	Artists can color the sky red because they know ...
Kahlil Gibran	Art is a step from what is obvious and well-know...
Kenneth Tynan	The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing...
Leon Trotsky	There are no absolute rules of conduct, either i...
Leonardo da Vinci	Although nature commences with reason and ends i...
Lionel Trilling	Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal....
Louis Kahn	Every time a student walks past a really urgent,...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca	All art is but imitation of nature....
Lucius Annaeus Seneca	The way is long if one follows precepts, but sho...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper...
M. C. Escher	Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a...
M. C. Escher	Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve t...
M. C. Escher	We adore chaos because we love to produce order....
Marc Chagall	Great art picks up where nature ends....
Marc Chagall	I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think ...
Marc Chagall	The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of ke...
Marc Chagall	When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-m...
Marcel Proust	Art is a selective re-creation of reality accord...
Maria Callas	I don't need the money, dear. I work for art....
Maria Lenhart	The fact that writers will go through so much to...
Marshall McLuhan	Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century....
Mary Ellen Mark	I just think it's important to be direct and hon...
Max Eastman	The defining function of the artist is to cheris...
Melvin Maddocks	Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval i...
Michelangelo	A man paints with his brains and not with his ha...
Michelangelo	The true work of art is but a shadow of the divi...
Michelangelo	Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no tr...
Mickey Spillane	If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseba...
Novalis	The artist belongs to his work, not the work to ...
Octavio Paz	Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn...
Odilon Redon	While I recognize the necessity for a basis of o...
Oscar Levant	I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenz...
Oscar Wilde	All that I desire to point out is the general pr...
Oscar Wilde	Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a...
Oscar Wilde	No great artist ever sees things as they really ...
Pablo Picasso	Every child is an artist. The problem is how to ...
Pablo Picasso	Give me a museum and I'll fill it....
Pablo Picasso	My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you...
Pablo Picasso	Painting is just another way of keeping a diary....
Pablo Picasso	Some painters transform the sun into a yellow sp...
Pablo Picasso	The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that...
Pablo Picasso	The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily ...
Pablo Picasso	We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie ...
Pat Colander	In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presidi...
Paul Cezanne	When I judge art, I take my painting and put it ...
Paul Gauguin	Art is either plagiarism or revolution....
Paul Gauguin	In art, all who have done something other than t...
Paul Gauguin	The history of modern art is also the history of...
Paul Gauguin	There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocr...
Paul Strand	The artist's world is limitless. It can be found...
Paul Valery	An artist never really finishes his work, he mer...
Peter Kropotkin	Have not prisons - which kill all will and force...
Plutarch	Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is paintin...
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Pictures must not be too picturesque....
Richard Avedon	My portraits are more about me than they are abo...
Robert Schumann	To send light into the darkness of men's hearts ...
Roy Lichtenstein	I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be...
Roy Lichtenstein	I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do ...
Salvador Dali	Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no p...
Salvador Dali	Painting is an infinitely minute part of my pers...
Salvador Dali	Progressive art can assist people to learn not o...
Salvador Dali	There are some days when I think I'm going to di...
Sarah Brightman	I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars ...
Sarah Brightman	I have a love-hate relationship with performing....
Sarah Brightman	You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a...
Scott Adams	Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes...
Stella Adler	Life beats down and crushes the soul and art rem...
T. S. Eliot	Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, bu...
Ted Shawn	Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are ...
Theodore Dreiser	Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathe...
Thomas Paine	Every science has for its basis a system of prin...
Twyla Tharp	Art is the only way to run away without leaving ...
Vincent Van Gogh	If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot p...
W. H. Auden	What the mass media offers is not popular art, b...
Willa Cather	What was any art but a mould in which to impriso...
William Faulkner	The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, whi...
William Hazlitt	Rules and models destroy genius and art....
William Wordsworth	Fill your paper with the breathings of your hear...
William Wordsworth	Pictures deface walls more often than they decor...