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" 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. "

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" Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. "

Frederic Chopin

Art

Simplicity

Reward

" I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end. "

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Shopping

End

Beach

" 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. "

" From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. "

" In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. "

" Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive. "

" What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. "

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Lord

Vineyard

" There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

Leader

Picture

Know

" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "

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

" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

" All art is but imitation of nature. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature

Imitation

Art

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

" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "

" I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. "

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

Alfred North Whitehead

Experience

Art

Aesthetic

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

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

" While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them. "

" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "

" The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. "

Ellen Key

World

Becomes

" Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' "

Takashi Murakami

High

Art

" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "