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" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "

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" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

" The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. "

Gustave Flaubert

" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "

" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. "

Langston Hughes

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. "

" Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. "

" There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. "

" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "

" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "

" Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. "

John W. Gardner

" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "

" What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images. "

" There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

" The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. "

Stanley Kubrick

" I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. "

" All art is but imitation of nature. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

" Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. "

Richard Jefferies

" I always saw candy as art. "

" When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. "

" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "