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" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

Albert Einstein

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" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

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" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. "

" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

" Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. "

Albert Einstein

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. "

" The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. "

" If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. "

Albert Einstein

" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "

Honore de Balzac

" If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. "

" Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. "

" Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. "

" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "

" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. "

" There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. "

" 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. "

" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "

" There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. "

Albert Einstein

" Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. "

" If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. "

" Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. "

" Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Pitching is the art of instilling fear. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt