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

James Montgomery

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" 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. "

" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "

" Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn. "

James Montgomery

" Art is the triumph over chaos. "

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

" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "

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

" Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. "

George Henry Lewes

" Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. "

Boris Pasternak

" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. "

" I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. "

" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

" The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "

" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

" But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things. "

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "

Beyonce Knowles

" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

" An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. "

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

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