"Every artist was first an amateur” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom” – John F. Kennedy
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” – Thomas Merton
“Art and culture are not just frills, but crucial elements of human life” – Daniel Libeskind
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth” – Pablo Picasso
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs” – Thomas Wolfe
“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved” – André Malraux
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known” – Oscar Wilde
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all” – Claude Debussy
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it” – Bertolt Brecht