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" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

John Berger

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" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master. "

" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "

" There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. "

" A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. "

Charles Dudley Warner

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" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "

" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

Robert Schumann

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" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

" From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in. "

" Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. "

" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "

" My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. "

" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "

" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

" Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. "

" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "

" Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. "

" If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. "

" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

" When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. "

" Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. "