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" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "

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" 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. "

" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. "

" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

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

" The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. "

" Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. "

" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

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

" An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. "

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

" What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. "

" 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?' "

" A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. "

" Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience. "

" True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. "

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

" The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. "

" Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. "

" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. "

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "