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• The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Art, Creating

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• When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, Bored, Annoying

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

  Pierre Soulages

  Art, Opposites, Perspective

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

  Voltaire

  Art, Secret, Knows

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• Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

  Paul Rand

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

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• Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

  William Everson

  Art, Healing, Handmaids

  William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

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• When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

  Kevin James

  Art

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• Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

  Scott Thompson

  Art, Gloss, Activism

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• Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

  Seth

  Art, Responsibility, People

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• Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Unique, Design

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• We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Imagination, Effort

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• The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

  William Morris

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• ... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Exercise, Imagination

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

  Laura Esquivel

  Art, Produce, Know How

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Struggle, Making Money

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• Art is man's refuge from adversity.

  Menander

  Art, Adversity, Men

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• Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

  Robert Morgan

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Floating, Journalism

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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Order, Desire

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Judgement, Erotic

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Space, Quality

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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