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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.

David Hockney

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

Ellen Key

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Jenny Holzer

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

Ansel Adams

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Jerzy Kosinski

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Jerzy Kosinski

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Gustav Mahler

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

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

Theodor Adorno

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

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

Elia Kazan

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

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Henri Matisse

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Alexander Calder

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.

E. M. Forster

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Trying to force creativity is never good.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

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

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.

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

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.

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

The most profound things are inexpressible.

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

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

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.

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

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

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

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

Things are beautiful if you love them.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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

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.

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

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