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What exactly is art and what does it mean to us? Well it turns out there isn\u2019t one definitive answer to this question. You can ask a hundred people and get a hundred different answers.

I thought it would be fun to see how some famous artists answered this question. Here\u2019s what I found.

\u201cThe purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.\u201d -Pablo Picasso

\u201cAll art is but imitation of nature.\u201d
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

\u201cArt is not what you see, but what you make others see.\u201d
-Edgar Degas

\u201cArt is the signature of civilizations\u201d
-Jean Sibelius

\u201cArt is a line around your thoughts.\u201d
\u2013 Gustav Klimt

\u201cTo be an artist is to believe in life.\u201d
\u2013 Henry Moore<\/p>\r\n

\u201cArt evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.\u201d \u2013 Ren\u00e9 Magritte

\u201cArt should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.\u201d
\u2013 Keith Haring

\u201cThe richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.\u201d
\u2013 Claude Monet

\u201cIf I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.\u201d
\u2013 Edward Hopper

\u201cI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.\u201d
\u2013 Michelangelo

\u201cMy opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. \u201c
-Vincent Van Gogh

\u201cThe only time I feel alive is when I\u2019m painting. \u201c
-Vincent Van Gogh

\u201cI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.\u201d
\u2013 Georgia O’Keeffe

\u201cI paint flowers so they will not die.\u201d
\u2013 Frida Kahlo

\u201cPhotography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.\u201d
\u2013 Dorothea Lange

So with that, I will end this post with my own quote about art.

\u201cArt is not what I do, it\u2019s who I am. If you cut me, I bleed art. \u201c
-Shelli Fitzpatrick

What is your definition of art?

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