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• Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Art, Thinking, Opposites

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• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Arrows, Archery

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• The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

  Robert Musil

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Long, Insects

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

  Theodore Roethke

  Art, Hysteria, Defense

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.76, Copper Canyon Press

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• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  David Lee Roth

  Art, Animal, Glasses

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• It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Risk, Protect

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Struggle, Drawing

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• In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sacred, Immorality

  "The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin". Book by Albert Edward Elsen, p. 131, July 1, 1985.

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• What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Ugliness

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Character, Eye

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• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Men, Wish

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• My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

  Alexander Calder

  Art, Movement, Form

  Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

  Alexander Calder

  Art, Perfect, Next Steps

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• The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Art, Men, Intellectual

  "Philosophy of Art". Book by Hippolyte Taine, 1865.

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Country, Art, Player

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• Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Appeasement, Complaints

  David Shapiro, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns Drawings, 1954-1984”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Would Be, Argument

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• The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting
  down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after
  day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in
  motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist
  in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Heaven, Serendipity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his work, he must arrange, modify, and dispose of his materials so that they may appear in a more agreeable and beautiful manner than they would have assumed without his interference.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Beautiful, Art, Order

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• To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Essence, Matter

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• All art is an abstraction to some degree.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Degrees, Abstraction

  Henry Moore (2013). “On Being a Sculptor”, p.20, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Eye, Reality

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• Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

  James Turrell

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  "Incredible Lightness" by Julie L. Belcove, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 19, 2013.

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