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I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Brian Eno
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Beatrice Wood
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
Jerry Saltz
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
André Gide
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
