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" The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. "
Emmet Fox
Live
Moment
God
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" 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. "
Bernie Siegel
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Love
Music
" The temple of art is built in words. "
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Temple
Built
" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "
Robert Schumann
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Darkness
Artist
" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "
Oscar Wilde
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Art
Great
" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "
Henri Matisse
Seems
Energy
Color
" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "
John F. Kennedy
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Vision
Society
" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "
Martin Luther
Music
Noble
Treasure
" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "
John Ruskin
Positive
Art
Truth
" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "
Amy Lowell
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Man
He
" Every artist was first an amateur. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amateur
Art
First
" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "
Oliver Goldsmith
Too Late
Art
Woman
" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "
Auguste Rodin
Need
Whatever
Art
" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "
Pablo Picasso
Reality
Start
Art
" After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. "
Jeffrey Deitch
Movement
Impact
Art
" I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. "
Andy Warhol
Look
Meaning
Long
" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "
Georges Bizet
Art
Beautiful
Beautiful Art
" A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. "
Charles Dudley Warner
Artist
Great
Picture
" To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. "
Leo Tolstoy
People
Work
Food
" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Long
Moment
You
" Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. "
Philip Guston
Need
Kind
Art
" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "
Mark Rothko
Stillness
Purpose
Spirit
" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "
Ellen Key
Art
Education
Mistake
" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "
Denis Diderot
Live
Man
Art
" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "
Egon Schiele
Eternal
Art
Cannot
" I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "
Tony Hawk
Fashion
Art
Music
" The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. "
Nick Cave
Music
Romantic
Vision
" Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. "
Martin Luther
Beautiful
God
Art
" The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. "
Mark Van Doren
Discovery
Art
Teaching
" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "
Orson Welles
Enemy
Limitations
Art