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" Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. "

Boris Pasternak

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Otto von Bismarck

" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "

" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

" 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. "

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

" 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. "

" To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "

" Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. "

Paul Di Filippo

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

Marina Abramovic

" The art of love is largely the art of persistence. "

" I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life. "

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

" A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. "

" Insight is the first condition of Art. "

George Henry Lewes

" With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' "

" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "

" Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. "

" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

" I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. "

" To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. "

" Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. "

Lady Bird Johnson

" Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. "

Boris Pasternak

" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "

" We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. "

" The temple of art is built in words. "

Josiah Gilbert Holland

" I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. "