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

Alfred North Whitehead

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" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

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" The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. "

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" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

" I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

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

" It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. "

Albert Einstein

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

Edgar Allan Poe

" I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. "

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

David Ben-Gurion

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

Helen Frankenthaler

" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "

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" Common sense is genius in homespun. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. "

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

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Madame de Stael

" Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. "