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Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today, and each and every one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude rather than an exploitative attitude, if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness and to learn to love all living beings.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.