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

" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" 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. "

" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

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

Madame de Stael

" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "

" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "

" My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture. "

" An empty canvas is full. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it. "

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

" To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. "

" Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. "

Constantin Stanislavski

" Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. "

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" 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. "

" My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. "

" The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. "

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

" 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. "

" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

" 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. "

" In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. "

Donald Johanson

" 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. "

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

Madonna Ciccone

" You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. "

" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

" In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. "