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" I paint with shapes. "

Alexander Calder

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" No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" What is art but a way of seeing? "

" The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. "

" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Saint Augustine

" A picture is worth a thousand words. "

" Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "

" Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. "

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

" I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. "

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "

" The goal of art was the vital expression of self. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" Space is the breath of art. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. "

Chris Van Allsburg

" Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. "

Laurence J. Peter

" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

" The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. "

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. "