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" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "
Harry S Truman
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" I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "
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" The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. "
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" The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. "
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" I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. "
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" The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. "
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" 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. "
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" Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "
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" The best artists know what to leave out. "
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" It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. "
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" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "
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" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "
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" Art is anything people do with distinction. "
Louis Dudek
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" The message of great art is to disturb. "
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" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "
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" When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. "
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" My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. "
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" Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. "
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" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "
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" Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. "
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" Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. "
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" Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. "
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