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" Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. "

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" I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. "

" 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. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "

" 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

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty. "

" No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. "

" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. "

" The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. "

Ulysses S. Grant

" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "

" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture. "

Bozoma Saint John

" If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

" It's clever, but is it Art? "

Rudyard Kipling

" The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. "

" A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. "

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

" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "

" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

Robert Schumann