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I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.
I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.
Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.