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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, _x000D_And polish it up with art, _x000D_But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, _x000D_Is the word that comes from the heart.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.