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" Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings. "

David Bowie

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" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. "

" Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. "

" If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "

" Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

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" All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe. "

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

Jason Reynolds

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" Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. "

" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "

" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "

" The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

" You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. "

" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "

" A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. "

" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "

" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "

" I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. "

" Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock. "

" 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 want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. "

" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "

" 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. "

" Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. "

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "

" I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. "

" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "