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" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "

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" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

Albert Einstein

" Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. "

" There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity. "

" Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. "

" Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. "

Austin O'Malley

" Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. "

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

" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "

" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. "

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

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

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

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

" My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. "

" Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. "

" I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

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

" Gardening always has been an art, essentially. "

" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. "

" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "

" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "