The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. Votes: 2
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhat I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become. Votes: 2
Bruce NaumanThe magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. Votes: 2
William McDonoughAh, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art! Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneAvoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. Votes: 0
Kay WalkingStickArt leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. Votes: 0
Henry ThreadgillPropaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. Votes: 0
Decimius Magnus AusoniusThat's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. Votes: 0
Stefano BenniArt reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands. Votes: 0
Sonam KapoorNow let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareMaking art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into Votes: 0
John FruscianteOnly through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustArt is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardMFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. Votes: 0
Sarah SchulmanDiplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly. Votes: 0
Christopher Nutallwhat society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. Votes: 0
Elizabeth JanewayI am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanConception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. Votes: 0
Dante Gabriel RossettiIn part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. Votes: 0
AristotleWhat we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanThat's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen. Votes: 0
Tony BlairSadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Votes: 0
Wyndham LewisLike art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. Votes: 0
Gloria SteinemOriginality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. Votes: 0
H. W. JansonArt requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Votes: 0
Paul GauguinGeometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Votes: 0
Guillaume ApollinaireWork is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself. Votes: 0
Stephen SondheimThe only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art Votes: 0
Stephen StillsThe only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art. Votes: 0
Stephen StillsWhat is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. Votes: 0
Steve Martin...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. Votes: 0
Robert AdamsI guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to. Votes: 0
Maria SempleArt is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. Votes: 0
Sara BlecherComputers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans. Votes: 0
Jonny Lee MillerWe sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. Votes: 0
Michael KordaArt isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability? Votes: 0
Edwin CatmullArt is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about Votes: 0
Julianne MooreArt is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. Votes: 0
Julianne MooreArt is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. Votes: 0
David WhyteWhat art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected. Votes: 0
Viggo MortensenThis is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. Votes: 0
Bill T. JonesGoddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings. Votes: 0
Jack KerouacAuthentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. Votes: 0
Philip KotlerArt is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranI knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts. Votes: 0
Lynne Rae PerkinsProgramming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. Votes: 0
Donald KnuthWhat one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art. Votes: 0
Jon GlaserOriginality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterThe prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerWhat inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. Votes: 0
Jillian BarberieThe prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerWhat if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? Votes: 0
Rollo MayThe effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellPolitics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Votes: 0
Paul ValeryArt sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. Votes: 0
Alan JoshuaThe art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteI'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. Votes: 0
John MellencampArt! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! Votes: 0
William T. WileyWhat is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreI will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite. Votes: 0
Kanye WestI'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. Votes: 0
Alistair MacLeanThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us Votes: 0
Gloria SteinemWhat is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? Votes: 0
Leon Battista AlbertiAll art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? Votes: 0
David HockneyIn art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist. Votes: 0
Bruce NaumanBe always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineThe power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardArt is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. Votes: 0
Theodore RoethkeI just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceChess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. Votes: 0
Emanuel LaskerLove and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. Votes: 0
Karl KrausMaking art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. Votes: 0
Kiki SmithProgressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. Votes: 0
Angela DavisThe science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) Votes: 0
Jonathan KellermanIf social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? Votes: 0
Ralph EllisonWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. Votes: 0
John BergerArtists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? Votes: 0
Alexander TherouxWhat makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. Votes: 0
Joseph Gordon-LevittThe challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonReal art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. Votes: 0
Vivienne WestwoodWith good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively. Votes: 0
Matt WagnerWhen you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. Votes: 0
Alberto GiacomettiThat is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave. Votes: 0
Lauren JaureguiI am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. Votes: 0
Odilon RedonIf what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it. Votes: 0
Robert PinskyIf what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it. Votes: 0
Robert PinskyThe whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill. Votes: 0
Duke of WellingtonThe whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. Votes: 0
Arthur WellesleyArt is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. Votes: 0
Jack WhiteBesides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not. Votes: 0
Maria MitchellYou really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in. Votes: 0
Elizabeth PeytonWhat I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. Votes: 0
Richard AttenboroughI have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports. Votes: 0
Elizabeth PriceThe love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones. Votes: 0
Gino VannelliDo not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertArt's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. Votes: 0
John CageWhat I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else Votes: 0
Seth Godin...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghArt is not so much talent as character"¦ it's what you are, the qualities of the person. Votes: 0
John OlsenThe magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. Votes: 0
Young-Ha Kim...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghIt's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. Votes: 0
Damien HirstO, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. Votes: 0
George SantayanaImprovisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f" you're doing Votes: 0
Mick NapierWhat lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghWhat is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. Votes: 0
F. Sionil JoseWhat is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives. Votes: 0
Edvard MunchIn life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. Votes: 0
Maggie NelsonWhat is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. Votes: 0
Anita BrooknerA person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. Votes: 0
Zelig PliskinScience is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. Votes: 0
Donald KnuthWhat do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! Votes: 0
Ivan SlavkovIf it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. Votes: 0
Albert CamusOur aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move. Votes: 0
David BelleA copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestLeo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. Votes: 0
Nicholas MeyerWhat other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. Votes: 0
Arnold PalmerWell, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. Votes: 0
Jules VerneO human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! Votes: 0
Bryan ProcterThou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. Votes: 0
Robert BrowningTrue statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. Votes: 0
William Rounseville AlgerArt first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. Votes: 0
Paul Cezannewhen you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most. Votes: 0
Marion Dane BauerThere's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. Votes: 0
Mario BataliThe truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. Votes: 0
Ala BashirWhat makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. Votes: 0
Arsene WengerArt is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn. Votes: 0
Milton AveryWorks of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonArt is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. Votes: 0
Nile RodgersArt should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. Votes: 0
CaitlÃn R. KiernanThe Europeans who went to Africa came back with âmodern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? Votes: 0
Duke EllingtonWhen I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art. Votes: 0
Alice NeelThe good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeOpera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. Votes: 0
Anna NetrebkoBad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonThe art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenThe function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-itâs to imagine what is possible. Votes: 0
bell hooksWhat makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. Votes: 0
Audrey FlackI really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. Votes: 0
Ed SheeranThe highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. Votes: 0
Garry KasparovNature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonI am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. Votes: 0
Rhys IfansMotivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerI am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War. Votes: 0
Paul VirilioWhat thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisTo me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. Votes: 0
Noah TaylorI feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does. Votes: 0
Brie LarsonI think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenThe art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. Votes: 0
Anthony HopkinsA blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. Votes: 0
Sol LeWittWhat we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can. Votes: 0
James MercerSuch are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. Votes: 0
MartialI do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art. Votes: 0
Chaim PotokTo be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Votes: 0
Larry WallModernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
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