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" That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. "

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" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "

" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "

" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "

" The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' "

" Baking is both an art and a science. "

" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "

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

" I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. "

" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. "

" 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

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. "

Gustave Flaubert

" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "

Martin McDonagh

" I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "

" In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. "

" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. "

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. "

Thornton Wilder

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" 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

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" 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.