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" A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. "

Joshua Reynolds

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" The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. "

" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "

" I cry out for order and find it only in art. "

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" A great artist is always before his time or behind it. "

George Edward Moore

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

Tennessee Williams

" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "

" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

Edgar Allan Poe

" Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside. "

Valentino Rossi

" Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. "

" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

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

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. "

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "

" It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. "

Albert Einstein

" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "

" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

" Wherever art appears, life disappears. "

Robert Motherwell

" The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. "

" I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. "

" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "

" I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. "

" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "