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Inspirational Quotes about Art

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

art quotes by Ansel Adams

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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

art quotes by Ansel Adams

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

art quotes by Ansel Adams

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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

art quotes by Ansel Adams

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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

art quotes by Ansel Adams

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

art quotes by Scott Adams

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

art quotes by Theodor Adorno

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

art quotes by Theodor Adorno

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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

art quotes by Theodor Adorno

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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

art quotes by Tadao Ando

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

art quotes by Jean Anouilh

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

art quotes by Aristotle

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Well begun is half done.

art quotes by Aristotle

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

art quotes by W. H. Auden

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

art quotes by Francis Bacon

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

art quotes by Francis Bacon

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

art quotes by Honore de Balzac

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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

art quotes by Ellen Barkin

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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

art quotes by Mikhail Baryshnikov

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

art quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

art quotes by Cecil Beaton

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

art quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

art quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

art quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

art quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

art quotes by Theodore Bikel

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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

art quotes by Josh Billings

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

art quotes by Josh Billings

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

art quotes by William Blake

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

art quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

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Imagination rules the world.

art quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

art quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

art quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

art quotes by Sarah Brightman

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I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

art quotes by Sarah Brightman

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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

art quotes by Sarah Brightman

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The history of art is the history of revivals.

art quotes by Samuel Butler

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I paint with shapes.

art quotes by Alexander Calder

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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

art quotes by Alexander Calder

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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

art quotes by Alexander Calder

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