We work in the dark,we do what we can,we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. Henry James

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity. Leo Tolstoy

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. Steven Pressfield

Art is not a thingÑit is a way. Elbert Hubbard
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before? I always like to say that cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. You have to take a risk. Francis Ford Coppola

Art begins with resistanceÑat the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. AndrŽ Gide in PoŽtique

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth. Friedrich Nietzsche The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. George Bernard Shaw

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