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" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "

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" I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "

Roy Lichtenstein

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

" We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing. "

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. "

Stanley Kubrick

" Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. "

" From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. "

Marina Abramovic

" I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. "

Thornton Wilder

" 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. "

" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "

Laurie Anderson

" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. "

" Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions. "

" It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time. "

" A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. "

" Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. "

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

" Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. "

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "

Henry Kissinger

" I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. "

" 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. "