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" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

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" 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. "

" I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. "

" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

Albert Einstein

" The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' "

" In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. "

Stephen Sondheim

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "

" We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. "

" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" Education is the art of making man ethical. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. "

" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" I paint with shapes. "

Alexander Calder

" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "

" Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. "

" Land really is the best art. "

" All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' "

" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "

" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "

Timothy Olyphant

" 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. "

" Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. "

" 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. "

" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "

" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "

" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky