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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
— Pat Conroy
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
— Vince Vaughn
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
— Rufus Sewell
Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
— John Gregory Dunne
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
— Steve Lacy
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
— Andrew Motion
I have an active imagination.
— Anya Taylor-Joy
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
— Quintilian
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.
— Stacy Schiff
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.
— John C. McGinley
To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles.
— Tom Ellis
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
— Carlos Fuentes
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
— Kit Harington
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
— Dirk Benedict
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
— Toby Jones
The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean?
— Noah Hawley
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
— Tim Cope
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
The imagination is man's power over nature.
— Wallace Stevens
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
— Wallace Stevens
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
— Erin Morgenstern
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
— Andrew Bird
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
— Peter Mullan
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
— Stephen Lang
On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.
— Stephen Lang
The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'
— Adrienne Mayor
We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.
— Adrienne Mayor
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
— Charles Kettering
Ideas control the world.
— James A. Garfield
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
— Darell Hammond
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
— Gary Ross
Imagination creates some big monsters.
— Olivier Martinez
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
— Mo Rocca
I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
— Uzo Aduba
I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
— Uzo Aduba
Love is based on imagination.
— Olivier Martinez
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
— Roger McGuinn
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
— Brian K. Vaughan
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.
— Sara Sheridan
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
— Robert Osborne
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
— George Henry Lewes
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
— George Henry Lewes
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
— Paul Davies
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.
— Sufjan Stevens
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
— Federico Fellini
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
— Henri Bergson
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
— Vivien Leigh
I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.
— Robertson Davies
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
— Anne Sullivan
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.
— Duane Michals
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
— Duane Michals
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
— Gustavo Dudamel
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. 
— James Weldon Johnson
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
— Rob Bell
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
— Dave Attell
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
— Simon Pegg
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
— Azar Nafisi
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
— Franz Schubert
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
— Julianna Baggott
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
— Mary McCarthy
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
— Henry Moore
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
— Hayley Atwell
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
— Jacob Bronowski
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
— Q-Tip
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.
— Ishmael Beah
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
— Maxwell Maltz
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
— Robert Delaunay
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
— Jack Prelutsky
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
— George William Russell
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
— Jennifer Gilmore
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
— Gilbert Parker
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
— James Anthony Froude
Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
— Kate Klise
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
— Lisa Unger
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
— Amy Waldman
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
— R. D. Laing
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
— Andre Dubus III
No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
— Bennet Omalu
I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.
— Mary Pope Osborne
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
— Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
— Evelyn Underhill
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
— Claudia Rankine
I have a darker imagination than most people.
— Edan Lepucki
Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.
— Christopher Koch
Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.
— Mordicai Gerstein
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
— Leslie Banks
Imagination is an instrument of survival.
— Rogier van der Heide
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
— Robinson Jeffers
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
— Nicholas Ray
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
— Frederick Henry Hedge
I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.
— Eric Hill
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
— Robert Doisneau
I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.
— Skyler Samuels
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
— Elinor Wylie
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
— Jack Williamson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
— Raoul Dufy
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
— Edgar Degas
Art is the daughter of freedom.
— Friedrich Schiller
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
— Valentino Rossi
Art is not a thing it is a way.
— Elbert Hubbard
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
— Jonathan Swift
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
— George Bernard Shaw
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
— C. S. Lewis
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
My painting does not come from the easel.
— Jackson Pollock
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
— Winston Churchill
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
— Leo Tolstoy
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Pablo Picasso
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
— Jef I. Richards
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
— Ernst Fischer
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
— Susan Vreeland
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
— Douglas Horton
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
— Le Corbusier
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Insight is the first condition of Art.
— George Henry Lewes
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
— Charles Bukowski
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
— Claude Monet
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
— Giotto di Bondone
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
— Isaac Newton
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
— George Sand
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
— Havelock Ellis
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
— Thomas Wolfe
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
— Lia Ices
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
— Socrates
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
— Charles Baudelaire
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
— Elliott Erwitt
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
— Claude Debussy
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
— Colleen Atwood
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
— Andy Warhol
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
— Francisco Goya
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
— Mario Botta
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
— Roy Lichtenstein
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
— Georg Cantor
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
— Will Rogers
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
— Albert Einstein
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
— John Wesley Powell
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
— Fernando Botero
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
— Theo Jansen
Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
— George Lois
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
— Marcus Aurelius
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
— Madonna Ciccone
There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.
— Andy Stanley
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
— Peter Max
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.
— Groucho Marx
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
— Robert M. Pirsig
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
— Arsene Wenger
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
— Salvador Dali
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
— Norman McLaren
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
— Henri Matisse
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
— Lady Bird Johnson
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
— Langston Hughes
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
— Martin Amis
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
— Alexander Calder
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
— John Singer Sargent
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
— Jean-Luc Godard
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
— Helen Frankenthaler
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
— Anais Nin
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
— Yayoi Kusama
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
— Marcel Duchamp
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'
— Yayoi Kusama
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
— Frank Ocean
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
— Tomie dePaola
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
— Michelangelo
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
— Paul Cezanne
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
— Roy Lichtenstein
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
— Robert Rauschenberg
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
— Hunter S. Thompson
All art is erotic.
— Gustav Klimt
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
— Georges Braque
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
— Aristotle
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
— Og Mandino
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
— Henri Matisse
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
— William Shakespeare
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
— Rebecca West
There is nothing new in art except talent.
— Anton Chekhov
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
— William Wordsworth
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
— Banksy
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
— Walter Winchell
Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
— Martin L. Gross
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
— Alanis Morissette
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
— Edvard Munch
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
— Russell Simmons
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
— Henry Moore
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
— Steve Martin
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
— Paul Gauguin
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
— Robert Schumann
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
— Theodor Adorno
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
— Rene Magritte
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
— Isaac Newton
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
— Alan Moore
I always saw candy as art.
— Dylan Lauren
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
— David Hilbert
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
— Max Beerbohm
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
— Margaret Fuller
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
— Craig Brown
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
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
— Vanessa Mae
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
— Lewis Mumford
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
— Agnes Martin
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
— Paul Klee
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
— Catie Curtis
There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.
— James Turrell
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
— William Dunbar
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
— Giorgio de Chirico
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
— Hans Hofmann
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
— Steven Pinker
Photographing a cake can be art.
— Irving Penn
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
— Edward Hopper
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
— Prince
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
— Frank Stella
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
— Mason Cooley
Art is born of humiliation.
— W. H. Auden
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
— Charles Eames
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
— Rita Ora
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
— Alexander Pope
Life is short, the art long.
— Hippocrates
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
— Stephen Sondheim
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
— Tony Hawk
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
— Henry Louis Gates
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
— JR
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
— Gunter Grass
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.
— Stone Gossard
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
— Thomas Hoving
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
— Pablo Picasso
Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
— John Lasseter
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
— Marilyn Manson
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
— Hans Hofmann
Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
— David Frost
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
— Michael Morpurgo
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
— Barbara Kruger
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
— Steven Wright
Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.
— Joakim Noah
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
— David Ogilvy
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
— Truman Capote
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
— Ludwig Erhard
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
— Sean Patrick Thomas
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
— Marc Chagall
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
— Herman Hesse
I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.
— Marilyn Manson
Art is the path to being spiritual.
— Piet Mondrian
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
— John Berger
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
— Jonathan Swift
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
— Max Bill
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
— Abraham Lincoln
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
— Barbra Streisand
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
— Charles Horton Cooley
I paint with shapes.
— Alexander Calder
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
— Marcel Proust
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
— Oscar Wilde
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
— Jerry Saltz
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
— Ai Weiwei
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
— G. H. Hardy
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
— Alexander Meiklejohn
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
— Hans Hofmann
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
— Patti Smith
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
— Rita Mae Brown
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
— Pythagoras
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
— E. T. Bell
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
— Andrew Eldritch
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
— Alexander Pope
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
— Auguste Rodin
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
— Carl Rogers
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
— Corita Kent
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
— Elbert Hubbard
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
— George Santayana
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
— Georges Braque
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
— Georges Braque
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
— Gustave Flaubert
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
— Henri Matisse
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
In art the best is good enough.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is the triumph over chaos.
— John Cheever
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
— John Ruskin
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
— Mary Schmich
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
— Paul Strand
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
— Peter De Vries
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
— Robert Motherwell
All good art is an indiscretion.
— Tennessee Williams
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
— William Morris
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
— Barbara Hepworth
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
— Emily Carr
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
— Pierre Bonnard
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
— Gustave Courbet
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
— Robert Musil
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
— Robert Delaunay
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
— Roy Lichtenstein
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
— Louis Dudek
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
— Kiki Smith
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
— Richard Branson
Art is the proper task of life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
— Nicki Minaj
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
— Voltaire
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
— Auguste Rodin
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
— D. H. Lawrence
Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
— Jean Nouvel
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
— Gerard Way
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
— Nalini Nadkarni
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
— Margaret Keane
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
— Sylvia Plath
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
— Albrecht Durer
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
— Barry White
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
— Bertrand Russell
I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.
— Andre Benjamin
When you create art, the world has to wait.
— Will Smith
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
— Jeff Koons
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
— Lenny Bruce
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca