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" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "

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" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

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" I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter. "

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" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "

James Montgomery

" Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. "

" The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. "

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "

" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "

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" Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing. "

" My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. "

" Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. "

" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "

" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "

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" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "

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" The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. "

" An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" 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. "

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

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" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

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" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "

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" I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. "

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

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" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

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