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" Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. "

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" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

Marina Abramovic

" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "

" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. "

" An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. "

" Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. "

" The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. "

" Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' "

Jef I. Richards

" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "

" Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. "

" Paint the essential character of things. "

Camille Pissarro

" If it's good art, it's good. "

Kenneth Branagh

" The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. "

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

" For me, I see filmmaking as art. "

" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "

" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

" Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art. "

" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" I paint with shapes. "

Alexander Calder

" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "

Oliver Goldsmith

" The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "

" All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. "