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" All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. "

Federico Fellini

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" Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada. "

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" When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. "

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

" Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. "

" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "

" I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. "

" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

Albert Einstein

" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "

" Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. "

Federico Fellini

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. "

" Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. "

" Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. "

" Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. "

" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "

" Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. "

" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "

" Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. "

" I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it. "

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" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" Extreme complication is contrary to art. "

" Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "

" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "