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| Al Capp |
Abstract art is a product o... |
| Albert Camus |
All great deeds and all gre... |
| Albert Camus |
Without freedom, no art; ar... |
| Albert Einstein |
True art is characterized b... |
| Alexander Calder |
I paint with shapes.... |
| Alexander Eliot |
So-called art restoration i... |
| Ambrose Bierce |
Painting, n.: The art of pr... |
| Ambrose Bierce |
Photograph: a picture paint... |
| Amy Lowell |
Art is the desire of a man ... |
| Anais Nin |
If you do not breathe throu... |
| Andre Gide |
Art begins with resistance ... |
| Andre Gide |
Art is a collaboration betw... |
| Andy Warhol |
An artist is someone who pr... |
| Andy Warhol |
Dying is the most embarrass... |
| Andy Warhol |
Everyone will be famous for... |
| Andy Warhol |
I am a deeply superficial p... |
| Andy Warhol |
I like boring things.... |
| Andy Warhol |
I'm afraid that if you look... |
| Ansel Adams |
Not everybody trusts painti... |
| Ansel Adams |
The negative is comparable ... |
| Ansel Adams |
There are no rules for good... |
| Ansel Adams |
You don't take a photograph... |
| Aristotle |
The aim of art is to repres... |
| Arthur Fellig |
When you find yourself begi... |
| Auguste Rodin |
I choose a block of marble ... |
| Auguste Rodin |
I invent nothing, I redisco... |
| Auguste Rodin |
Inside you there's an artis... |
| Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
What garlic is to salad, in... |
| Barbra Streisand |
I've been called many names... |
| Benita Valente |
Why not say it? I'm burstin... |
| Bernadette Peters |
You've gotta be original, b... |
| Bette Midler |
I always try to balance the... |
| Carl Rogers |
The very essence of the cre... |
| Cecil Beaton |
Be daring, be different, be... |
| Charles Baudelaire |
Everything that is beautifu... |
| Charles Horton Cooley |
An artist cannot fail; it i... |
| Charles Horton Cooley |
One should never criticize ... |
| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
Rice Krispies happens to be... |
| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
We breathe, we think, we co... |
| Cindy Sherman |
I didn't have any interest ... |
| Claes Oldenburg |
I am for an art that is pol... |
| Cyril Connolly |
The artist one day falls th... |
| Dale Carnegie |
The essence of all art is t... |
| Daphne du Maurier |
All autobiography is self-i... |
| David Hockney |
Anything simple always inte... |
| David Hockney |
The moment you cheat for th... |
| Diane Arbus |
A photograph is a secret ab... |
| Donal Henahan |
The irrepressible spirit th... |
| E. B. White |
Thurber did not write the w... |
| Edgar Degas |
Painting is easy when you d... |
| Edgard Varese |
An artist is never ahead of... |
| Edmond de Goncourt |
A painting in a museum hear... |
| Edward M. Forster |
To make us feel small in th... |
| Edward M. Forster |
Works of art, in my opinion... |
| Edward Steichen |
Every other artist begins w... |
| Edward Steichen |
Photography is a major forc... |
| Edward Steichen |
Photography records the gam... |
| Edward Steichen |
When that shutter clicks, a... |
| Edward Steichen |
You know... that a blank wa... |
| Elbert Hubbard |
Art is not a thing; it is a... |
| Elbert Hubbard |
The sculptor produces the b... |
| Ellen Barkin |
Acting is a matter of givin... |
| Ellen Key |
The more horrifying this wo... |
| Elmer G. Letterman |
You can't start at the top.... |
| Emile Zola |
The artist is nothing witho... |
| Erica Jong |
Everyone has talent. What i... |
| Erma Bombeck |
Great dreams... never even ... |
| Eugene Delacroix |
The artist who aims at perf... |
| Federico Fellini |
All art is autobiographical... |
| Fran Lebowitz |
Andy Warhol made fame more ... |
| Fran Lebowitz |
Very few people possess tru... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
Art for art's sake is a phi... |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
The physician can bury his ... |
| Frank Sinatra |
May you live to be 100 and ... |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
The essence of all beautifu... |
| George Bernard Shaw |
Without art, the crudeness ... |
| George Moore |
A great artist is always be... |
| George Santayana |
An artist is a dreamer cons... |
| Georgia O'Keeffe |
I found I could say things ... |
| Georgia O'Keeffe |
It was in the 1920s, when n... |
| Georgia O'Keeffe |
Sun-bleached bones were mos... |
| Gertrude Stein |
A writer should write with ... |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Art consists of limitation.... |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Art, like morality, consist... |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Lying in bed would be an al... |
| Gore Vidal |
For half a century photogra... |
| Gustave Flaubert |
Of all lies, art is the lea... |
| Helen Hayes |
I cry out for order and fin... |
| Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
The arts are an even better... |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
The creative act lasts but ... |
| Henri Matisse |
A picture must possess a re... |
| Henri Matisse |
Drawing is like making an e... |
| Henri Matisse |
I don't paint things. I onl... |
| Henri Matisse |
I have always tried to hide... |
| Henri Matisse |
I have been no more than a ... |
| Henri Matisse |
Impressionism is the newspa... |
| Henri Matisse |
It is only after years of p... |
| Henri Matisse |
Time extracts various value... |
| Henri Matisse |
What I dream of is an art o... |
| Henri Matisse |
You study, you learn, but y... |
| Henry Havelock Ellis |
Every artist writes his own... |
| Henry Mille |
The artist is the opposite ... |
| Henry Moore |
A sculptor is a person who ... |
| Henry Moore |
It is a mistake for a sculp... |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
Every artist dips his brush... |
| Howard Dietz |
Composers shouldn't think t... |
| Hugh Casson |
Mine was the role of the oi... |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Every creator painfully exp... |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
I don't invent characters b... |
| Jean Cocteau |
Art produces ugly things wh... |
| Jenny Holzer |
The most profound things ar... |
| Joan Rivers |
Our natures are a lot like ... |
| John Ciardi |
Modern art is what happens ... |
| John Gregory Dunne |
Writing is manual labor of ... |
| John LeCarre |
Writing is like walking in ... |
| John Ruskin |
Fine art is that in which t... |
| John Updike |
The refusal to rest content... |
| John Updike |
What art offers is space - ... |
| Jonathan Swift |
Vision is the art of seeing... |
| Josh Billings |
About the most originality ... |
| Josh Billings |
Words are often seen huntin... |
| Judith Thurman |
This is the river of the gr... |
| Jules Feiffer |
Artists can color the sky r... |
| Kahlil Gibran |
Art is a step from what is ... |
| Kenneth Tynan |
The buttocks are the most a... |
| Leon Trotsky |
There are no absolute rules... |
| Leonardo da Vinci |
Although nature commences w... |
| Lionel Trilling |
Immature artists imitate. M... |
| Louis Kahn |
Every time a student walks ... |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
All art is but imitation of... |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
The way is long if one foll... |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
A chair is a very difficult... |
| M. C. Escher |
Are you really sure that a ... |
| M. C. Escher |
Only those who attempt the ... |
| M. C. Escher |
We adore chaos because we l... |
| Marc Chagall |
Great art picks up where na... |
| Marc Chagall |
I adore the theater and I a... |
| Marc Chagall |
The dignity of the artist l... |
| Marc Chagall |
When I am finishing a pictu... |
| Marcel Proust |
Art is a selective re-creat... |
| Maria Callas |
I don't need the money, dea... |
| Maria Lenhart |
The fact that writers will ... |
| Marshall McLuhan |
Ads are the cave art of the... |
| Mary Ellen Mark |
I just think it's important... |
| Max Eastman |
The defining function of th... |
| Melvin Maddocks |
Giving jazz the Congression... |
| Michelangelo |
A man paints with his brain... |
| Michelangelo |
The true work of art is but... |
| Michelangelo |
Trifles make perfection, an... |
| Mickey Spillane |
If you're a singer you lose... |
| Novalis |
The artist belongs to his w... |
| Octavio Paz |
Art is an invention of aest... |
| Odilon Redon |
While I recognize the neces... |
| Oscar Levant |
I'm a study of a man in cha... |
| Oscar Wilde |
All that I desire to point ... |
| Oscar Wilde |
Every portrait that is pain... |
| Oscar Wilde |
No great artist ever sees t... |
| Pablo Picasso |
Every child is an artist. T... |
| Pablo Picasso |
Give me a museum and I'll f... |
| Pablo Picasso |
My mother said to me, "If y... |
| Pablo Picasso |
Painting is just another wa... |
| Pablo Picasso |
Some painters transform the... |
| Pablo Picasso |
The artist is a receptacle ... |
| Pablo Picasso |
The purpose of art is washi... |
| Pablo Picasso |
We all know that art is not... |
| Pat Colander |
In Chicago, we may not thin... |
| Paul Cezanne |
When I judge art, I take my... |
| Paul Gauguin |
Art is either plagiarism or... |
| Paul Gauguin |
In art, all who have done s... |
| Paul Gauguin |
The history of modern art i... |
| Paul Gauguin |
There is always a heavy dem... |
| Paul Strand |
The artist's world is limit... |
| Paul Valery |
An artist never really fini... |
| Peter Kropotkin |
Have not prisons - which ki... |
| Plutarch |
Painting is silent poetry, ... |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Pictures must not be too pi... |
| Richard Avedon |
My portraits are more about... |
| Robert Schumann |
To send light into the dark... |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
I don't have big anxieties.... |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
I like to pretend that my a... |
| Salvador Dali |
Drawing is the honesty of t... |
| Salvador Dali |
Painting is an infinitely m... |
| Salvador Dali |
Progressive art can assist ... |
| Salvador Dali |
There are some days when I ... |
| Sarah Brightman |
I don't want to see picture... |
| Sarah Brightman |
I have a love-hate relation... |
| Sarah Brightman |
You do have to be fairly se... |
| Scott Adams |
Creativity is allowing your... |
| Stella Adler |
Life beats down and crushes... |
| T. S. Eliot |
Twentieth-century art may s... |
| Ted Shawn |
Dance is the only art of wh... |
| Theodore Dreiser |
Art is the stored honey of ... |
| Thomas Paine |
Every science has for its b... |
| Twyla Tharp |
Art is the only way to run ... |
| Vincent Van Gogh |
If you hear a voice within ... |
| W. H. Auden |
What the mass media offers ... |
| Willa Cather |
What was any art but a moul... |
| William Faulkner |
The aim of every artist is ... |
| William Hazlitt |
Rules and models destroy ge... |
| William Wordsworth |
Fill your paper with the br... |
| William Wordsworth |
Pictures deface walls more ... |
