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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we do not start measuring her limbs.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can not help it. It is the truth.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and Does not exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Life Does not imitate art, it imitates bad television.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

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.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.