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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet
Art, Obvious
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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
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"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."
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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer
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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Alexander Pope, English Poet
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"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."

Barack Obama, American President
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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer
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