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" 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

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" Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. "

" I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. "

" After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. "

" All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. "

" One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. "

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. "

" The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. "

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

Harry Belafonte

" The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. "

" All art is but imitation of nature. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. "

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

Jackson Pollock

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "

" 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. "

" Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. "

" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "

Flannery O'Connor

" I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

" Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. "

" Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. "

" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "

" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "

" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

Maria Sibylla Merian

" 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. "