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"The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael."

Art Kings Love You
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice."

Art Order Justice
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move."

Art Moving Beautiful
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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist
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"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."

Art Two Revelations
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves."

Art Flower Roots
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal."

Art Design Triumph
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."

Art Lying Beauty
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth.""

Men Art War
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."

Art Beautiful Community
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others."

Art Life Business
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"I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important."

Art Important Results
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Allen Tate Poet, Critic
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"There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago."

Mean Years Art
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Amy Lowell Poet
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"Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line."

Art Lines Theory
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