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" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

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" The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. "

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" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "

" 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. "

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" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "

" The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. "

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" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

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