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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Maya Angelou
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Mason Cooley
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
Brad Renfro
When art critics get together, they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
Jerry Saltz
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
