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No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Chris Ware

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I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire