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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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.
- Og Mandino

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle

Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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