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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "

Marcus Aurelius

" I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. "

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

" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace. "

" The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. "

" Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. "

Dante Alighieri

" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "

" I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. "

" I love photography, and I love the art of photography. "

" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "

" The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. "

" All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. "

" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "

" An empty canvas is full. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. "

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

" An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. "

Charles Bukowski

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

Kenneth Lonergan

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. "

" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

" In art, the obvious is a sin. "

" Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. "

" I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. "