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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 terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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 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 an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
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