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" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "

" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "

" Trying to force creativity is never good. "

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" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "

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" In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. "

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "

" The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. "

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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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" Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music. "

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

Jackson Pollock

" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" 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. "

" Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle. "

Russell Simmons

" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "

" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

David Rockefeller

" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art. "

" Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. "

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" I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. "

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