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" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "

Henry Kissinger

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" Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. "

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" It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. "

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" Great art picks up where nature ends. "

" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "

" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

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" I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. "

" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

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" Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "

" Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' "

" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

" For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. "

" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "

" Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. "

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" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

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" The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. "

" It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. "

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" All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. "

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