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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
Jerry Saltz
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Paul Cezanne
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Eric Gill
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster
Art is a form of catharsis.
Dorothy Parker
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick
I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
