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• Art is the window to man's soul.
  Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world;
  nor could the world see the man within.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Soul, World

  "Modern Museum Reopens With New Wings" by Richard F. Shepard, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 1964.

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• Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Conscious, Said, Knows

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Art is the questioning of culture

  Gerard Mortier

  Culture, Questioning, Art Is

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• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

  Anish Kapoor

  Creative, Architecture, Mythology

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• One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

  Chris Ware

  Teacher, Upset, Criticism

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• Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

  M. C. Escher

  Education, Jigsaw Puzzles, Two

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• In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

  Piet Mondrian

  Individual

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

  Carl Andre

  Men, Mountain, Climbs

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• Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

  Amanda Palmer

  Empathy, Healthy, Soul

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• Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

  Julian Casablancas

  Purpose, Art Is

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• We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Ignorance, Nurse

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

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• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  Oscar Wilde

  College, Important, Teach

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

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• Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

  Khalil Gibran

  Steps, Art Is, Known

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• We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

  Jamake Highwater

  People, Empathy, Viewpoints

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• In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Believe, Doctors, Sick

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• I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Works Of Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Geuss, Ronald Speirs (1999). “Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, People, Soul

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

  Guy Davenport

  Attention, Indifference, Replacements

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• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Men, History

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
  Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Vibrations, Mystery, Speak

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• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.  If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied.  For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  Dan Graham

  Religious, Rocks, Feelings

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Dad, Memories, Father

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• But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

  Nate Ruess

  Creating, Long, People

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• Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Used

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