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• Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Generosity, Doe

  "Why We Are All Artists: Seth Godin in Conversation – Part 1". Interview with Mary Jaksch, writetodone.com.

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• Art is doing something you really believe in.

  Ray Toro

  Art, Believe

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• A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

  Christopher Ricks

  Art, Attention, Great Work

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• True poetry is born of scrutiny,
  Scrutiny, the son of meditation,
  Meditation, the son of lore,
  Lore, the son of inquiry,
  Inquiry, the son of investigation,
  Investigation, the son of knowledge,
  Knowledge, the son of understanding,
  Understanding, the son of wisdom,
  Wisdom, the son of surrender to the Divine Will
  Thus it is with the poet himself: his art is powerful, protecting, elevating, and his judgement straight and strong

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Art, Strong, Powerful

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• The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

  Francois Delsarte

  Art, Emotion, Form

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• Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Views, Skills

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, dl.acm.org. December 1974.

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• What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

  Corin Nemec

  Beautiful, Art, Ugly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

  Patti Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

  Frank Frazetta

  Art, Way, One Thing

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• Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Art, Strong, Memories

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Art, Reality, Unconscious

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• Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Attention, Indifference

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• A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Form, Force

  Guy Davenport (2015). “Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Hurt, Art

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• Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

  Franz Werfel

  Art, Humanity, Religion

  Franz Werfel (2017). “Between Heaven and Earth”, p.215, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A SWEET disorder in the dress
  Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
  A lawn about the shoulders thrown
  Into a fine distraction :
  An erring lace which here and there
  Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
  A cuff neglectful, and thereby
  Ribbons to flow confusedly :
  A winning wave (deserving note)
  In the tempestuous petticoat :
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
  I see a wild civility :
  Do more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Art, Winning

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

  Shirin Neshat

  Meaningful, Art, Responsibility

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• I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

  Marc Quinn

  Art, Thinking, Answers

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• Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.

  Sarah Curran

  Art, Inspiration, Creativity

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• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  Irving Thalberg

  Movie, Art, People

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• Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Essence, Mixing

  American Dialog Vol. 1-5, p.9, 1964.

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• It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Should, Deals

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built.  Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Taken, Past

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• Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Exclusion, Unnecessary

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• A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Men, Mountain

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