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Hippocrates Physician
Art

"There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death."

Mean Art Pain
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Art

"By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."

Children Art Hero
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Art

"Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony."

Men Art War
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Mary McCarthy Author
Art

"Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts."

Art Sports Hunting
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Art

"Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth."

Art Fine Wilderness
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Art

"I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion."

Art Eye Powerful
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Art

"In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present."

Art Country Time
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May Sarton Poet
Art

"We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else."

Art Patience Patient
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Maya Lin Architect, Artist
Art

"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."

Art Fields Architecture
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Maya Lin Architect, Artist
Art

"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art."

Art Matter Brain
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Maya Lin Architect, Artist
Art

"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical."

Thinking Art Serendipity
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Maya Beiser Cellist, Composer
Art

"From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony."

Art Home Christian
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Michael Bell Voice Actor
Art

"Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized."

Art Teaching Vision
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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Art

"No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art."

Art Loyal Conjecture
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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Art

"Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?"

Children Art Philosophy
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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Art

"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

Art Time Madness
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