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" What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. "

Lionel Trilling

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" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "

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

Bruno Bettelheim

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. "

Robert Motherwell

" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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

" For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. "

" The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "

" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. "

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. "

" I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. "

" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "

" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" I am not strong on perfection. "

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "

" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. "

" Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. "

" Every good painter paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "

Henry Ward Beecher