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" Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. "

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

" The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. "

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

" 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. "

" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "

" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "

" Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. "

" I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. "

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

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

" 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

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "

" I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. "

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in. "

" Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing. "

" I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. "

Matthew McConaughey

" Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.' "

Molly Crabapple

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. "

Richard Phillips

" One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. "

" Life is short, the art long. "

" The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you. "

" Painting is by nature a luminous language. "

Robert Delaunay

" The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. "