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  • Will Cuppy Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anna H. Shaw Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
    Anna H. Shaw
     
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  • André Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Barbra Streisand Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Paul Klee Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • David Hockney Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
    David Hockney
    English painter and printmaker (1937 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • John Updike Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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  • George Sand Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Art is not a thing; it is a way.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Isadora Duncan Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Oscar Wilde Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Guy Debord Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Bliss Carman Art thou a hyacinth blossom The shepherds upon the hills Have trodden into the ground? Shall I not life thee?
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bliss Carman Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach, Reddening on the bough? Shall I not take thee?
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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