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" At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it. "

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" When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. "

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" To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection. "

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

" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "

" 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. "

" Education is the art of making man ethical. "

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" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "

" A picture is a poem without words. "

" I had best friends who were in the industry, and I'm like, it's cool if you get a job, and I'm happy. "

" Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. "

" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

" Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. "

" The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. "

" That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think. "

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" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" 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. "

" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "

" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "

" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "

" Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. "

" The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. "

" Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. "

" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

" The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. "

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" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

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" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "

" I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. "

" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "