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" My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. "

Giacomo Casanova

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" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "

" I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. "

Matthew McConaughey

" Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. "

" Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. "

Giotto di Bondone

" It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. "

Giacomo Casanova

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

" Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "

Robert Smithson

" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

" I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. "

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "

" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "

" 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.

" Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. "

Bruno Bettelheim

" What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. "

Lionel Trilling

" Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work. "

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. "

" There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. "

" 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. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. "

" It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. "

" I always saw candy as art. "

" Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels. "

Denise Morrison