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" 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

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Robert Mapplethorpe

" To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. "

" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "

" Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "

Robert Smithson

" If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. "

" Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. "

" Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. "

George Henry Lewes

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions. "

" Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. "

" That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think. "

Brian Stokes Mitchell

" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

Marina Abramovic

" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "

" I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art. "

" I like to learn. That's an art and a science. "

Katherine Johnson

" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. "

" What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. "

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

Edward Steichen

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art. "

" Follow your own star! "

Dante Alighieri

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

" Art is the proper task of life. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife. "