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

Henry Louis Gates

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" The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. "

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" 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. "

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "

" The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. "

" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

Maria Sibylla Merian

" What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

" There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "

William Shakespeare

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "

" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

Edgar Allan Poe

" To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. "

Charles Baudelaire

" If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. "

" The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. "

" The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. "

" Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. "

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" The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. "

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" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "

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" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "

" There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months. "

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

" Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? "

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" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "