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• Leo's goals are works of art.

  Frank Rijkaard

  Art, Goal

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• We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see everything in our environment as a prop, as a set, as a stage, as a backdrop for filling ourselves in. We don't see ourselves as ever completed. We are in-formation.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Art, Technology, Creating

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• There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Art, Policemen, Understood

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• Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, May

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Tangible, Painting

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Inspirational Life, Ideas

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• Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Stories, Detectives

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• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Science, Symphony

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• A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Moving, Eye

  "Faith Into Action: Thoughts on Selected Topics". Book by Daisaku Ikeda, 1999.

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  Donald Miller

  Art, People, Batteries

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• Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Perseverance, Art, Real

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• It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.

  Rob Brezsny

  Gratitude, Art, Promise

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• I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

  Andy Rooney

  Christmas, Art, Feelings

  Andy Rooney (2003). “Common Nonsense”, p.38, PublicAffairs

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• Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Uplifting, Faith, Art

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Secret Strength: For Those Who Search”, p.69, Multnomah

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• In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

  Carl Sagan

  Art, Nature, Space

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 24, p. 431, 1985.

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• We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Order, Looks

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Art, People, Soul

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• As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Art, Two

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• When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Important, Compare

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• A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Writing

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• Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Screenplays, Invitations

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• A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Art, Atmosphere, Portraits

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• Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Creativity, Energy

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