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" A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. "

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" Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. "

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" To create a work of art is to create the world. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

" Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. "

" Every good painter paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. "

" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "

" The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. "

" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. "

" The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. "

" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "

" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Every artist was first an amateur. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

Gustave Courbet

" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

William Hazlitt

" Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. "

" There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity. "

" Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. "

" We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. "

" When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! "

Raina Telgemeier