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" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

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" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "

Charles Horton Cooley

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. "

" Art is anything people do with distinction. "

" A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. "

" 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. "

" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

Gustave Flaubert

" A picture is worth a thousand words. "

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

" Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. "

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. "

" I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.' "

" When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! "

Raina Telgemeier

" I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. "

" The art is long, life is short. "

" I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. "

" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "

" Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali. "

" Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. "

" Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. "