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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith on art

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto on art

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard on art

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
Paul Cezanne on art

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas on art

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
Marilyn Manson on art

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Marilyn Manson on art

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan on art

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi on art

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
Alanis Morissette on art

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper on art

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.
Jim Henson on art

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney on art

What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire on art

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas on art

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand on art

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
Dolly Parton on art

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki on art

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick on art

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on art