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" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "

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" Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle. "

Russell Simmons

" One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. "

" I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. "

" 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

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

" Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' "

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. "

Donald Johanson

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. "

" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" With an apple I will astonish Paris. "

" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "

" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "

" Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. "

" I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. "

William Butler Yeats

" I cry out for order and find it only in art. "

" Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "

" 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

" Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. "

" All art is but imitation of nature. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. "

Matthew McConaughey

" 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. "

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

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

" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "

" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "