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Art is I, science is we.

Claude Bernard

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Georges Braque

Art is mean to disturb, science reassures.

George Braque, Pensées sur l'Art

I do not easily think in words, because words are not my medium ... I believe so strongly that it is dangerous for artists to talk.

Benjamin Britten

The difference between a painting and a sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing that casts it.

Benvenuto Cellini

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers — and never succeeding.

Marc Chagall

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

Drawing is not what you see, but what you must make others see.

Edgar Degas

The best job ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel; it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

William Faulkner

Art is either a revolutionist or a plagiarist.

Paul Gauguin

Ars longa, vita brevis. (Life is short and the art long.)

Hippocrates

Anything I can do isn't art.

Rudolph Giuliani

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

André Malraux

It is art itself which should teach us to free ourselves from the rules of art.

Molière

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

George Moore

The artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Odilon Redon

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living, sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw

Occasional vulgarity is a by-product of the vitality and passion without which there can be no great art.

Francis Toye

It is only through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection ...

Oscar Wilde

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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