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" Politics is the art of the possible. "

Otto von Bismarck

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" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. "

Elizabeth Bowen

" When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. "

" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "

Otto von Bismarck

" I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. "

" I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. "

" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "

Robert Delaunay

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

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

" If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? "

" Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. "

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "

" I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work. "

" My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. "

" Art is a harmony parallel with nature. "

" Of all lies, art is the least untrue. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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. "

" In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. "

" I am not strong on perfection. "