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“It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.”

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Author:Dirk Benedict

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.”

Source: Prejudices Second Series

“I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.”

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Author:Terence Koh

“I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.”

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Author:Raymond Pettibon

“[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'”

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Author:Salvador Dali

“The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

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Author:John Keats

“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”

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Book:Lectures on Architecture and Painting

Source: Lectures on Architecture and Painting

“I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.”

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Author:Shakira