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

Gustave Flaubert

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

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "

" There is no truth. There is only perception. "

Gustave Flaubert

" When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. "

" I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. "

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

" The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice. "

Fernando Botero

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" 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 beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. "

" We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. "

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

" Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. "

" When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. "

" Art is a harmony parallel with nature. "

" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

Albert Einstein

" Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

" The message of great art is to disturb. "

" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The goal of art was the vital expression of self. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" Read much, but not many books. "

Gustave Flaubert

" My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. "

Richard MacDonald

" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "