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

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" Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. "

" Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. "

" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "

" Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. "

Frederic Chopin

" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "

" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

" I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. "

" Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. "

" Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. "

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

" You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms. "

" I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. "

Barbara Hepworth

" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "

" A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. "

" Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. "

Elizabeth Bowen

" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

George Bernard Shaw

" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "

" Art is the proper task of life. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. "

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. "

Karen Salmansohn