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" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "

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" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. "

" Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. "

" 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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" To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

" 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. "

" That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. "

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside. "

Valentino Rossi

" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "

" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

Albert Einstein

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

Robert Schumann

" Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. "

" It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. "

" I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. "

Georgia O'Keeffe

" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" 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. "

" Land really is the best art. "

" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "

" Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. "

" Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "

Robert Smithson

" Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. "

Robert Smithson

" What is art but a way of seeing? "

" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "