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" Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. "

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" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "

" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

" Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. "

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. "

" Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower. "

" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "

Martin McDonagh

" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "

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

" I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

" Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. "

" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "

" Gardening always has been an art, essentially. "

" Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. "

" I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. "

" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "

" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" 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

" For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. "

" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. "

Joshua Reynolds

" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "

" 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. "

Langston Hughes

" Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. "