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" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. "
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" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "
Eddie Vedder
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" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "
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" 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
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" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "
Hunter S. Thompson
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" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "
Doris Humphrey
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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? "
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" We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "
John Berger
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" An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. "
J. D. Salinger
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" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "
Henry Kissinger
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" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "
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" You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms. "
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" Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "
Octavia Butler
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" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "
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" The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. "
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" Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. "
Constantin Stanislavski
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" Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. "
Bernie Siegel
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" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "
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" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "
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" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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You
" The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. "
J. Paul Getty
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" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "
Agnes Gund
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" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "
Egon Schiele
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" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "
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