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" All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. "
Iris Murdoch
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" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "
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" Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "
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" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "
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" Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. "
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" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "
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" Every artist writes his own autobiography. "
Havelock Ellis
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" What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. "
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" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "
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" Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. "
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" Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. "
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" You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. "
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" A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. "
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" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "
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" People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. "
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" Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "
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Malcolm Forbes
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