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

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" 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. "

" Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. "

" The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. "

" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

Gustave Flaubert

" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "

" 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. "

" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. "

" I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. "

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

James Montgomery

" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "

Russell Simmons

" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "

Timothy Olyphant

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

" When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! "

Raina Telgemeier

" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "

" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "

" The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "

John James Audubon

" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

" 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. "

" I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. "

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. "

Bertrand Russell

" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "

" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

" One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. "