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" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

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" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

Robert Schumann

" 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

" Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" This world is but a canvas to our imagination. "

Henry David Thoreau

" An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. "

Maurice Chevalier

" 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

" We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. "

" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "

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

" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "

" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" 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. "

" For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. "

Eugene Delacroix

" There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. "

" The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. "

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

" Every good painter paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

Gustave Courbet

" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. "

Lincoln Steffens

" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "