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" Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. "

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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

" It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. "

" When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. "

" For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. "

" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. "

Georgia O'Keeffe

" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

Alexander Calder

" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "

" In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. "

" There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. "

" Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time. "

" The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. "

" In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. "

Louis Kronenberger

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

" Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. "

" Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. "

" Art and life are inseparable. "

" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "

" The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. "