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" Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. "

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "

" Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. "

" I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end. "

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

" Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. "

" 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

" One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. "

" If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it. "

" All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

William Hazlitt

" 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. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "

" The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "

Honore de Balzac

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

" America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. "

" 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

" Art is a harmony parallel with nature. "

" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" 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

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "

" I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. "

" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

William S. Burroughs

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

Lionel Trilling

" Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. "

" Art is the most beautiful of all lies. "