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" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "

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" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. "

" 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. "

" Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter. "

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

" I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. "

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" You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. "

" Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. "

" If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. "

" Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. "

" Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. "

Robert Smithson

" An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "

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" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" 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

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

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" 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. "

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" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "

" A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects. "

" There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

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" Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. "