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" 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. "

Lorraine Hansberry

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" A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. "

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" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

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" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" 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. "

" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "

" When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.' "

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" Art is anything people do with distinction. "

" Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. "

" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

" The best artists know what to leave out. "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

" Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. "

" Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? "

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

" 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. "

" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "

" Baking is both an art and a science. "

" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "

" To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. "

Robert Mapplethorpe