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" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

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" Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. "

Malcolm de Chazal

" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

" I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

Henry Kissinger

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. "

" It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. "

Robert Motherwell

" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

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

" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

Langston Hughes

" Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. "

" A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. "

" In art, the obvious is a sin. "

" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

" In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press. "

" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. "

" 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. "

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "

" 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. "

" Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art. "

" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "

" It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. "

" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. "

Langston Hughes

" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "