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" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it. "

Fernando Botero

" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "

" The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. "

" Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. "

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" By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have. "

Preston Sturges

" I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art. "

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "

Diane von Furstenberg

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

" Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. "

" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "

" I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "

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" A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. "

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" There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. "

Novala Takemoto

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

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Leonardo da Vinci

" The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. "

" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "

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" To create a work of art is to create the world. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "