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" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

W. H. Auden

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" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "

" Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

" 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. "

" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. "

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "

" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "

" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? "

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. "

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" I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. "

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. "

" The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. "

" Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "

" There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. "

" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "

" Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. "

" Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. "

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "