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" Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. "

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" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

Langston Hughes

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

" Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. "

" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "

" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "

" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "

John F. Kennedy

" Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. "

" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "

Edward Thorndike

" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" We have art in order not to die of the truth. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. "

Stephen Sondheim

" The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other. "

" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "

" When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. "

" I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. "

" My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. "

Joyce Carol Oates

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "

" It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. "

" 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. "

" All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. "

" Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. "

" Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. "

" Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. "

" Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes. "