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" All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. "

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" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. "

" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! "

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

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

" It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. "

Robert Motherwell

" 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. "

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

Wassily Kandinsky

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

" The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. "

Hillary Clinton

" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

Robert Schumann

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

" I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life. "

" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. "

" Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition. "

" A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. "

" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "

" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. "

" The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. "

" Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. "

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "