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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

- Magdalena Abakanowicz

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Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

- Magdalena Abakanowicz

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Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

- Ezra Pound

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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. [1804]

- Benjamin Constant

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

- Daniel Barenboim

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

- John Adams

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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

- Pablo Picasso

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

- Pablo Picasso

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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

- Ralph W. Sockman

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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

The Artist's Way

- Julia Cameron

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Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

- Leontyne Price

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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

- Theodor Adorno

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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

- Rollo May

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Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems.

- Helen M. Winslow

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