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Gwendolyn Brooks

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Arthur Erickson

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Jean de La Fontaine

By the work one knows the workman.

Roy Lichtenstein

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

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.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Sarah McLachlan

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Robert Delaunay

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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

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.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Eugene Delacroix

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Edward Steichen

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Robert Delaunay

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Edward Steichen

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Robert Rauschenberg

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Alexander Calder

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

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Alfred de Vigny

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Alexander Calder

I paint with shapes.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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