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" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

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" No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "

" The temple of art is built in words. "

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "

" I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. "

" 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. "

" Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. "

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

George Bernard Shaw

" For me, I see filmmaking as art. "

" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "

" Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. "

" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

" Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. "

" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "

" Space is the breath of art. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. "

" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. "