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" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

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Barbara Januszkiewicz

" In art, the obvious is a sin. "

" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

Saint Augustine

" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. "

Harry Belafonte

" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "

" I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. "

William Butler Yeats

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

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

" A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. "

" Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "

" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

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" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. "

" Art and life are inseparable. "

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. "

" Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes. "

" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "

" I always saw candy as art. "

" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "

" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "

" Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. "

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "