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From: Judy Nagel (jdnag_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 05:57:12 PST

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Here are some quotes for you, Randy. I couldn't send them off line =
because I do not have your address. If you would like more, please =
forward your address. Judy

=B7 "It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our
perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from =
the
sordid perils of actual existence."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), English poet and playwright. The Critic as =
Artist,
part II, 1891.

=B7 "Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's =
view
of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which =
would
otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon.
Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it =
multiply
until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists . . =
. .
And many centuries after their core, whether we call it Rembrandt or
Vermeer, is extinguished, they continue to send us their special rays."
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French writer.

=B7 "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist.

=B7 "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers =
-- and
never succeeding."
Marc Chagall (1889-1985), French Surrealist painter.

=B7 "Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the =
touchstone
of our judgment."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) U.S. president. An address at Amherst =
College,
October 26, 1963.

=B7 "Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be =
explored by
those willing to take the risks."
Mark Rothko (1903-1970), American Abstract Expressionist painter.

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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Here are some quotes for you, Randy.&nbsp;I couldn't =
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<DIV>=B7 "It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize=20
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see it=20
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by<BR>those=20
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