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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France

Love, Enough, Instinct

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life, Beautiful, Human

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Line, Morality, Drawing

In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Best, Enough

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Long, Enough

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers

Judge, Creative, Essence

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol

Long, Enough, Afraid

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Another, Painting, Keeping

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan

Century, Ads, Cave

All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature, Imitation

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

Work, Artist, Merely

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Work, True, Perfection

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Positive, Truth, Reality

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

Sun, Picture, Photograph

Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor

True, Artist, Produce

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

Dream, Artist, Dreamer

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac

Hand, Eye, Paint

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

Life, Time, Takes

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

Work, Good, Men

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali

Painting, Minute, Infinitely

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

Eyes, Write, Writer

I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes

Find, Cry, Order

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

Heart, Together, Hand

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Beautiful, Picture, Limitation

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