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" Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. "

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" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" I paint with shapes. "

" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "

" I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! "

" The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together. "

" Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. "

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

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" 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. "

" I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. "

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "

" Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. "

" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "

C. S. Lewis

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" Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. "

" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

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

" The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you. "

" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

" Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. "

Malcolm de Chazal

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" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it. "

" 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 greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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" In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. "

" Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. "