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" All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. "

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" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "

" Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. "

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace. "

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

" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

" If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? "

" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "

Theodore Dreiser

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" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. "

" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "

Barbra Streisand

" 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. "

" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "

" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

" A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. "

" Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism. "

" Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. "

Dante Alighieri

" Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing. "

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

" Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. "

David Ben-Gurion

" There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "

William Shakespeare

" Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. "

Bertrand Russell

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "