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" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "

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" Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. "

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

Abraham Lincoln

" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. "

" Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" 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. "

" Wherever art appears, life disappears. "

Robert Motherwell

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. "

" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "

" Insight is the first condition of Art. "

George Henry Lewes

" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "

Diane von Furstenberg

" Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.' "

Molly Crabapple

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "

" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "

Henry Louis Gates

" With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' "

" The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. "

Herman Melville

" Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family. "

" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Art is what you can get away with. "