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art
n oh happy st. pats day

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola