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" If there is any aim for art, it is to develop a humanity, both strong and compassionate at the same time."
- G Aravindan

" What is art? Is it good or evil? From God or from the Devil? From man's strength or from weakness? Could it be a pleadge of fellowship, an image of social harmony? Might that be it's function? Like a declaration of love: The conciousness of our dependence on each other? A confession? An unconcious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life - Love and Sacrifice "
- Andrei Tarkovsky

" In the end everything can be reduced to the one simple element which is all a person can count upon in his existence: The capacity to love. That element can grow within the soul to become the supreme factor which determines the meaning of a person's life. My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware that the beauty is summoning him "
- Andrei Tarkovsky

" Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation"
- Ansal Adams

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding "
- Marc Chagall

" Art is a means of communication by which mind reaches out to mind across great gaps of space and time, as well across death "
- Francis Hoyland