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" We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. "

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" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "

Carroll O'Connor

" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. "

Daphne Guinness

" Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. "

William Bernbach

" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "

" I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "

" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "

John F. Kennedy

" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "

" 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. "

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "

" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "

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

" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "

" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "

" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "

" We have art in order not to die of the truth. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. "

" Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. "

George Henry Lewes

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. "

" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

Maria Sibylla Merian