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

Robert Mapplethorpe

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" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "

" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

" The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. "

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

" Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. "

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

Saint Augustine

" 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. "

" Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. "

Lincoln Steffens

" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "

" 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

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

Albert Einstein

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" I paint with shapes. "

Alexander Calder

" 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. "

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

Tennessee Williams

" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "

" How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? "

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

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "

" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

Helen Frankenthaler

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art. "

" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "

" The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. "