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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Beverly Sills

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

Matthew Ramsey

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

LL Cool J

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

John Ruskin

Art is the path to being spiritual.

Piet Mondrian

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Ad Reinhardt

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Otto Rank

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore

Art and life are inseparable.

Eva Hesse

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

Kehinde Wiley

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Lisa Randall

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Mason Cooley

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Heather Watts

Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Cheever

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Iain McGilchrist

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

Walter Gropius

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Philip Guston

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Harvey Fierstein

Art is my life and my life is art.

Yoko Ono

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Julia Cameron

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in calm, stretch our sympathies, reignite our senses, and reawaken appreciation.

Alain de Botton

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Antony Gormley

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Victor Pinchuk

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Eric Hoffer

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

John Lasseter

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Joy Harjo

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Henry Kissinger

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Jan Vogler

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Louis Dudek

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Gordon Gee

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Daniel Bell

Art is anything you can get away with.

Marshall McLuhan

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Twyla Tharp

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Virgil Abloh

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein