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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Aristotle
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
Denis Diderot
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
Jane Campion
Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
No, thou villain, thou art full of piety
William Shakespeare
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Danny Kaye
You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Paul Cezanne
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
I paint with shapes.
Alexander Calder
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
Jerry Saltz
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
