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" Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. "
Anish Kapoor
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" 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
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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. "
Charlie Parker
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Man
Music
" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "
William S. Burroughs
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Writing
Picture
" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "
Gertrude Stein
" What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. "
John Berger
Photography
Art
Light
" I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art. "
Emmanuel Macron
Commerce
Life
Business
" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "
CeeLo Green
Music
Art
Balance
" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "
Edmonia Lewis
Tree
Fire
Passion
" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "
Alexander Pope
Wit
Narrow
Art
" There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. "
Gerard Way
You
Art
Control
" 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. "
Beyonce Knowles
Focus
Believe
Love
" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "
Noel Gallagher
Adversity
Live
Out
" 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
Change
Feel
Own
" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "
Peter Max
Canvas
Know
Never
" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "
Russell Simmons
You
Situation
Bad
" There is nothing new in art except talent. "
Anton Chekhov
Talent
Art
New
" 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. "
Octavia Spencer
Dreams
Live
Hope
" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "
Victor Pinchuk
Art
Will
Society
" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "
Langston Hughes
Beautiful
Mind
I Am
" Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. "
Jonathan Swift
Vision
Seeing
Invisible
" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "
Wendy Carlos
Best
Nice
Surprise
" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "
Edward Steichen
Force
Man
Photography
" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "
Jawaharlal Nehru
Minds
True
Mirror
" We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. "
Salvador Dali
Hungry
Will
Abstract
" Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. "
Andre Malraux
Art
Revolt
Man
" Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition. "
Sadie Jones
Nothing
Walking
Stage
" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "
Susan Vreeland
Life
Art
World
" Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. "
Don Miguel Ruiz
Life
Dream
Beautiful
" I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look. "
Zendaya
You
Art
Beautiful
" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "
Kiki Smith
Live
Give
Unknown