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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

Alfred Stieglitz

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Art should never be held above our decency to each other.

Allison Anders

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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring — an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike

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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art — sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts — as inseparable components of a new architecture.

Walter Gropius

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

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The message of great art is to disturb.

Elayne Boosler

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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith — all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Bernie Siegel

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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Steve Martin

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The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

Julia Child

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I remember that — you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

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The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

Eduardo Galeano

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