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" Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. "

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" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "

" Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. "

" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "

" Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. "

Lady Bird Johnson

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "

" 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. "

" In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. "

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Henry Kissinger

" Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism. "

" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

Winston Churchill

" Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. "

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

" If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. "

" The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "

" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

" An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. "

Charles Bukowski

" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "

" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

" Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. "

Laurence J. Peter

" Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America. "