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

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" No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. "

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. "

" If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. "

" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

Langston Hughes

" Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. "

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

" 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. "

" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "

" I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. "

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

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

" Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. "

" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

" A picture is a poem without words. "

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

" All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. "

" The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. "

" In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. "

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

Maria Sibylla Merian

" 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. "

" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "

Wassily Kandinsky