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"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike

"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."
Jules Feiffer

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."
John Ruskin

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

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."
John Gregory Dunne

"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."
Judith Thurman

"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."
John LeCarre

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

"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."
Joan Rivers

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

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift

"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."
John Updike

"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."
Kenneth Tynan

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
Kahlil Gibran

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"All art is but imitation of nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
Lionel Trilling

"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."
Louis Kahn

"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."
Leonardo da Vinci

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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