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" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "

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" Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' "

" The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. "

Austin O'Malley

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" 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. "

" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "

" Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. "

" There is nothing new in art except talent. "

" Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. "

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. "

" 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

" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "

Theodore Dreiser

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "

" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Land really is the best art. "

" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "

" A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. "

" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "

James Montgomery

" For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. "

" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "

Henry Ossawa Tanner

" 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

" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

William Hazlitt

" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "