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“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
Albert Einstein
“Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science”
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
“It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence”
“All art requires courage.”
Anne Tucker
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel