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" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "
Douglas Adams
Art
Think
I Think
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" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings. "
David Bowie
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" 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. "
Jay Kay
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" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He
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" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "
Oscar Wilde
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" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "
Carroll O'Connor
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" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Like
" Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. "
Al Capp
Product
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" Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. "
Paracelsus
Life
Art
May
" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "
Milan Kundera
Imagination
Nothing
Value
" 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
Art
Myself
Man
" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "
D. H. Lawrence
Business
Man
Reveal
" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "
Tamara Taylor
Always
Art
Furniture
" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "
Pablo Picasso
Keeping
Way
Painting
" I love putting the music together. It's like art. "
Erykah Badu
Art
I Love
Together
" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "
Thomas Merton
Lose
Find
Art
" Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. "
Maya Angelou
Love
Music
You
" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "
Andre Gide
Serenity
Suits
Art
" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "
Albert Camus
Work
Conscience
Needs
" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "
Aristotle
Appearance
Aim
Inward
" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "
Edward Steichen
Done
Shutter
Anything
" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "
Ice Cube
Cool
Love
Building
" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "
Honore de Balzac
Art
Detail
Silent
" An empty canvas is full. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Art
Full
Empty
" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "
Aristotle
Children
Art
Life
" When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. "
Jim Hodges
Ability
Think
Process
" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "
Oscar Wilde
Art
Work
Unique
" This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. "
Douglas Adams
Hang
Never
Must
" I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. "
Wangechi Mutu
" I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? "
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Fish
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