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" The message of great art is to disturb. "
Elayne Boosler
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" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "
William Morris
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" It appears to be monumental only because it's art. "
Christo
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" I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. "
Matthew McConaughey
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" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "
Flannery O'Connor
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" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "
Susan Vreeland
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" Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. "
Edgard Varese
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" The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "
Pope Paul VI
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" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "
Honore de Balzac
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" Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. "
Martin Amis
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" Land really is the best art. "
Andy Warhol
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" Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. "
Georges Braque
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" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "
Charles Schwab
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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. "
Arsene Wenger
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" The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. "
Epicurus
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" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "
Edmonia Lewis
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" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "
Claude Monet
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" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "
Salvador Dali
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" There is nothing new in art except talent. "
Anton Chekhov
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" The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. "
Ellen Key
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" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "
John Ortberg
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Death
" San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people. "
Elayne Boosler
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" In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. "
Rabindranath Tagore
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" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "
Mos Def
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" Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. "
Jennifer Chiaverini
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" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "
Roy Lichtenstein
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" I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. "
Jeffrey Deitch
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" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "
CeeLo Green
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