"All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good."
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"The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm."
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"Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding."
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"To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all."
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"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."
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"I do not seek. I find."
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"I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I."
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"I draw like other people bite their nails."
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"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."
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"The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning."
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"We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies."
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"Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy."
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"The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up."
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"I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art."
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"All works of art should begin... at the end."
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"One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later."
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"Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps."
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"There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness."
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