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Art QuotesShowing page 7 of 11 "What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." "Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid." "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together." "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea." "Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe." "This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish." "Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie." "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words." "Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top." "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment." "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." "The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all." "The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art." "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good." "All art is but imitation of nature." "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal." "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." "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason." "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
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