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" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "

Theodore Dreiser

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" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "

" The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. "

" Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. "

" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

David Rockefeller

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. "

" Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. "

Langston Hughes

" The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "

" Insight is the first condition of Art. "

George Henry Lewes

" Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. "

Philip James Bailey

" I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "

Edward Steichen

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "

Jackson Pollock

" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

" Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. "

" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "

" Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower. "

" People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage. "

" I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter. "

Chance The Rapper

" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "

" I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. "

" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "

Angela Cartwright

" I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.' "

" A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. "

" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "

Honore de Balzac

" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "

William S. Burroughs