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" To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction. "

Nawal El Saadawi

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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! "

Sean Patrick Thomas

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. "

Harry Belafonte

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "

" There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. "

" The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. "

David Rockefeller

" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "

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

" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. "

" Trying to force creativity is never good. "

Sarah McLachlan

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' "

" The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. "

Hillary Clinton

" That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think. "

Brian Stokes Mitchell

" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "

Laurie Anderson

" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "

John Millington Synge

" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "

" In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. "

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

" There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty. "

" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "

" Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. "

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

George Bernard Shaw

" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "

" I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing. "

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

Jackson Pollock

" Education is the art of making man ethical. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel