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Art Quotes
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
251
"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
117
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
115
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
87
"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
86
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
80
"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within."
71
"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
70
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
68
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
64
"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
59
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
58
"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
54
"I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing."
53
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
52
"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
50
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
49
"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame."
48
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
47
"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."
46
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
Art,
46
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
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