“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
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“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
“I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.”
“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.”
“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”
“There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.”
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.”
“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
“By the work one knows the workman.”
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.”
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”
“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.”
“Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.”
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.”