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" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "

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" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so. "

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

Henry Kissinger

" Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. "

Publilius Syrus

" My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it. "

Fernando Botero

" Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. "

" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky

" A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. "

" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "

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

" Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. "

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "

Edward Thorndike

" The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. "

" Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. "

" I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. "

Matthew McConaughey

" The whole is more than the sum of its parts. "

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

" People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. "

" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "

" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "

Diane von Furstenberg

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

" Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. "

" An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. "

" At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it. "

Millie Bobby Brown

" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "

" 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

" 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. "