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" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

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" A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. "

" 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. "

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" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

Lorraine Hansberry

" 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. "

" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "

" When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "

" I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions. "

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" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "

" The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you. "

" I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. "

Chris Van Allsburg

" The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "

" Life is short, the art long. "

" I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. "

" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "

" Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' "

Jef I. Richards

" If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. "

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Joshua Reynolds

" Trash has given us an appetite for art. "

" Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "

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" An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. "

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" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

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" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

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" He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. "

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" Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. "

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