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Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

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

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.