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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
Daniel Radcliffe
Trying to force creativity is never good.
Sarah McLachlan
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
Camille Anna Paglia
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
Jerry Saltz
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Johann von Goethe
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
