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" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "

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" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "

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" Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. "

" When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" What is art but a way of seeing? "

" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

Madame de Stael

" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "

" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. "

Paul Di Filippo

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

Tennessee Williams

" I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. "

" Art is science made clear. "

" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. "

" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "

" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. "

Edward Steichen

" When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. "

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