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" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "
Robert Rauschenberg
Art
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" I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. "
Elizabeth Berkley
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" The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. "
Alfred Adler
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" Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. "
Balthus
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" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "
Jello Biafra
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" By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have. "
Preston Sturges
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" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "
William Hazlitt
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" Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. "
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" What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. "
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" But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things. "
Andre Benjamin
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Myself
" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "
Paul Gauguin
Philosophy
Art
Beauty
" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
C. S. Lewis
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" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "
Jackie Kennedy
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Will
Beautiful
" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "
George Sand
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Heart
Light
" I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure. "
Mira Nair
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Me
" My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture. "
Carlos Slim
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Always
Culture
" Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. "
Georges Carpentier
Boxing
Only
Half
" Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. "
Hippocrates
Love
Medicine
Loved
" Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. "
Guo Guangchang
Almost
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" Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. "
Andre Malraux
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Revolt
Man
" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man
Great
Great Man
" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "
Darren Criss
Painting
Lawn
Desk
" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "
Ludwig van Beethoven
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I Am
Think
" Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' "
Takashi Murakami
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" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "
Tomie dePaola
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" We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. "
Charlie Haden
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" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "
Susan Vreeland
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Compassion
" Art is a harmony parallel with nature. "
Paul Cezanne
Harmony
Nature
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" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "
Diane von Furstenberg
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Art
" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "
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" The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "
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Gratitude
Art