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" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

Gustave Courbet

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" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. "

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" Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. "

" 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

" Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. "

John W. Gardner

" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

" Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions. "

" You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. "

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" For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture. "

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" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "

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