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CARL JUNG: Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.DENISE LEVERTOV: I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.EZRA POUND: Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.GOETHE: Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE: There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!LEONYTNE PRICE: Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ: Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.OSCAR LEVANT: There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.PABLO PICASSO: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.CICERO (106 BC - 43 BC) Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.