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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. "

Harry Belafonte

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

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

" The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. "

David Rockefeller

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

William Morris Hunt

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "

" Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. "

" Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. "

Austin O'Malley

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

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

" The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice. "

Fernando Botero

" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" Space is the breath of art. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky

" Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. "

" An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. "

Charles Bukowski

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "