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The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. -- Max Bill
I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art. -- Gia Coppola
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. -- Wole Soyinka
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. -- Edward Hopper
Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together. -- Maurizio Seracini
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. -- Giorgio de Chirico
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision. -- Billy Collins
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. -- Otto Dix
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision. -- George Edward Woodberry
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals. -- Saul Williams
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. -- Brian Ferneyhough
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. -- Nick Cave
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. -- Pauline Kael
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible. -- George Edward Woodberry
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. -- William S. Burroughs
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds. -- Lionel Richie
(Art is) the residue of vision. -- Alberto Giacometti
Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. -- Chaim Potok
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. -- Jonathan Swift
It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality. -- Piet Mondrian
Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life. -- Lawren Harris
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world. -- Bruce Lee
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. -- Honore de Balzac
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision. -- Josef Albers
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. -- Robert Adams
You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision. -- Andrew Mason
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. -- Piet Mondrian
Travelling is not just an activity, it's the art of broadening your vision through the priceless experience. -- Wayne Chirisa
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision. -- Katherine Sophie Dreier
You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art. -- Rumi
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. -- Khalil Gibran
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. -- Bill Griffith
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. -- Ansel Adams
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. -- Edward Hopper
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. -- George Henry Lewes
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce. -- Keorapetse Kgositsile
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized... -- Michael Bell
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
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
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision. -- Edward Weston
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely. -- Jarod Kintz
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. -- Roger Scruton
Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values. -- George Barna
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see. -- Vivienne Westwood
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art. -- Steve Jobs
I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me. -- Sabrina Ward Harrison
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. -- Herbert Read
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse. -- Allen Ginsberg
For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art. -- David Bayles
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure. -- George Henry Lewes
Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality. -- Leonard Shlain
O gentle vision in the dawn:My spirit over faint cool water glides,Child of the day,To thee;And thou art drawnBy kindred impulse over silver tidesThe dreamy wayTo me. -- Harold Monro
O gentle vision in the dawn:My spirit over faint cool water glides,Child of the day,To thee;And thou art drawnBy kindred impulse over silver tidesThe dreamy wayTo me." -- Harold Monro

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