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"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."

"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."

Brad Holland, American Artist

Art, Cliches, Propaganda

13

"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"

"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Work, Space, Spiritual

13

"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't."

"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't."

Jerry West, American Artist

13

"My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there."

"My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there."

Trey Parker, American Artist

Time, Favorite, First, Old

13

"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."

"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Building, Day, Night, Project

13

"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."

"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."

Dick Bruna, Dutch Artist

Thought, Books, Children, Day

13

"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."

"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."

Georg Baselitz, German Artist

Attitude, Work, Responsibility

13

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."

Robert Henri, American Artist

Life, Art, Living

13

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

John Berger, English Artist

Time, Invention, Light, Photography

13

"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses."

"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

Order, First, Senses

13

"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."

"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."

Peter Scott, English Artist

13

"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."

"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."

Terri Windling, American Artist

13

"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."

"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."

Beatrice Wood, American Artist

13

"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."

"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

Art, Artists, Energy, Illness

13

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Art, God, Painting

13

"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."

"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."

Frank Stella, American Artist

Architecture, Chaos, Personality

13

"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

Art, Time, Error

13

"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

Emily Carr, Canadian Artist

Life, Living, World

13

"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

Hope, Desire, May

13

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Art, Truth, Lie

13

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning."

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning."

Giotto di Bondone, Italian Artist

Romantic, Rome, Yearning

13

"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."

"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."

Andrew Wyeth, American Artist

Emotional, Emotion, First, Flying, Joy

13

"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order."

"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

Work, Body, Machine, Order

13

"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons."

"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

Time, Work, Committee, Conservative

13

"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."

"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."

Alex Grey, American Artist

Life, Love, Nature, Fate

13

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."

Edouard Manet, French Artist

13

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think."

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

Change, Power, Peace, Thinking

13

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."

Willem de Kooning, American Artist

Time, Being, Poor, Trouble

13

"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"

"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"

Terri Windling, American Artist

Work, Technology, Editors, Englfantasy

13

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

John Berger, English Artist

Photography, Imitation, Painting

13

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Inspirational, Inspiration

13

"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."

"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Work, Photography

13

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

13

"I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them."

"I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them."

Ben Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

People, Traveling

13

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

13

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist

13

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

Art, Infinity, Space

13

"Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old."

"Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old."

Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist

Work, Fear, Body, Old

13

"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?"

"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?"

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Fun, Funny, Being, Now

13

"I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism."

"I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

People, Being, Criticism, Pleasure

13

"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."

"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Animation, Waiting, Will

13

"I love you more than my own skin."

"I love you more than my own skin."

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist

13

"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."

"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."

Balthus, French Artist

Desire, Mystery

13

"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."

"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."

Brad Holland, American Artist

People, Dream, Country

13

"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

Education, Trust, People, Hope

13

"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."

"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."

Pierre Bonnard, French Artist

Perception, Uniqueness

13

"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."

"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."

Edgar Degas, French Artist

Talent, Difficulty

13

"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."

"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."

Beatrice Wood, American Artist

Work, Fact, First

13

"It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea."

"It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea."

John Hench, American Artist

Creativity, Idea, Project, Will

13

"I have been drawing all my life."

"I have been drawing all my life."

Dick Bruna, Dutch Artist

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