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" Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. "

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" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

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

Constantin Stanislavski

" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

" The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "

Laurie Anderson

" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "

" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" 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. "

" There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art. "

" Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. "

" This world is but a canvas to our imagination. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The art of communication is the language of leadership. "

" In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. "

" What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. "

" Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Madame de Stael

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

" 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. "

" A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. "

" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. "

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

" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "

James Montgomery