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" A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. "

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" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "

" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

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

" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "

" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "

Christopher Marlowe

" What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. "

Lionel Trilling

" Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference. "

" Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. "

" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. "

Charles Bukowski

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

William Hazlitt

" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

" It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "

" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "

" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "

John Millington Synge

" I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. "

" As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. "

Margaret Atwood

" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

" Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. "

" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "

" Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. "

" Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. "

" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "

" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. "

" If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. "