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" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "

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" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

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" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. "

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. "

" There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

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

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" Music is about the performance. "

" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "

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" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

" By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have. "

Preston Sturges

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" 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. "

" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "

" 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. "

" Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. "

Bruno Bettelheim

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

" The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. "

" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

" 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. "

" All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. "

" I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look. "

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" Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. "

" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "