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" In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. "

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" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "

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

Flannery O'Connor

" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. "

" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "

" I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. "

" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" I prefer to see with closed eyes. "

" Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. "

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "

" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "

" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "

" Art is anything people do with distinction. "

" Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. "

Frederic Chopin

" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? "

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Alfred Stieglitz

" I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. "

" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. "

" There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. "

Morihei Ueshiba