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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
Jerry Saltz
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
David Rockefeller
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
David Byrne
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Alfred North Whitehead
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
Anais Nin
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Emmet Fox
Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.
Maroon 5
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Thomas Hood
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
Herbert Read
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Gertrude Stein
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
Whitman's masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul.
Rob Riemen
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson