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" O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! "

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William Wordsworth

" Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. "

" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "

" How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? "

" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

" 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 work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "

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

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

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

" A picture is a poem without words. "

" The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. "

" There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. "

" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

" 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

" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "

" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

Steve Prefontaine

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Austin O'Malley

" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "

William S. Burroughs

" People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage. "

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "

" Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. "

Marshall McLuhan