Art
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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring — an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Politics is the art of the next best.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field — no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
Riding a race bike is an art — a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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