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" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

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John Wesley Powell

" 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. "

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

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

Wassily Kandinsky

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "

" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

Robert Schumann

" Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. "

David Ben-Gurion

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. "

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

Alfred de Vigny

" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "

" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. "

" To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" Politics is the art of the possible. "

Otto von Bismarck

" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

Langston Hughes

" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

" The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. "

" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "

Barbra Streisand

" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "

" When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! "

Raina Telgemeier

" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "