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" Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. "
Yoko Ono
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" Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know. "
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" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "
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" My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture. "
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" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "
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