Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. Julian Barnes
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. Martha Beck
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases. Paul Auster
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.Confucius
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius. Michael Eric Dyson
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. Lynn Swann
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. Eric Carle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
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.Martin Luther King