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" Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

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" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

" In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. "

" 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. "

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "

" The art of communication is the language of leadership. "

" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "

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" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

" When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. "

" Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. "

" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

Ray Bradbury

" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "

" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. "

" The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. "

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. "

" I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. "

" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "