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3 December 2020 Norman McLaren

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

3 December 2020 Ulysses S. Grant

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

3 December 2020 Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

3 December 2020 Eugene Delacroix

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

3 December 2020 Horace

A picture is a poem without words.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

3 December 2020 Tony Snow

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

3 December 2020 Earl Wilson

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

3 December 2020 Herman Melville

Art is the objectification of feeling.

3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

3 December 2020 Boris Pasternak

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese

Film in the 20th century, it’s the American art form, like jazz.

3 December 2020 Paul Valery

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

3 December 2020 William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

3 December 2020 William Wordsworth

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

3 December 2020 Jim Henson

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

3 December 2020 E. M. Forster

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

3 December 2020 Dorothea Lange

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

3 December 2020 Henri Matisse

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

3 December 2020 Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

3 December 2020 John Keats

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

3 December 2020 Isadora Duncan

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

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