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" Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. "

Lincoln Steffens

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" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "

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

" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

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

" All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' "

" Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. "

Shaquille O'Neal

" The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. "

" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "

Beyonce Knowles

" Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "

Madonna Ciccone

" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. "

" How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? "

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. "

" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "

Marcus Aurelius

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

" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "

" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

Steve Prefontaine

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. "

Ulysses S. Grant

" Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work. "

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

Madame de Stael

" Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. "

David Ben-Gurion