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" The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

Henry Ward Beecher

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" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "

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

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" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. "

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

" 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. "

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

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" The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. "

" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. "

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" Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. "

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" I will preach with my brush. "

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" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

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" Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. "

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" Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. "

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

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" No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. "

" Of all lies, art is the least untrue. "

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" Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. "

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" In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. "