"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation."
"Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative."
"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."
"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
"We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'"
"The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming."
"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
"Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them."
"Patience is the art of hoping."
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
"I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment."
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."