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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
Jerry Saltz
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
Tyra Banks
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Herman Hesse
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor Adorno
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis
