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Art Quotes by Eric Maisel
- Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
- An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
- Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
- Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
- While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to…
- The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
- We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
- The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will…
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere — William Shakespeare