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" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

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" Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. "

" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "

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

" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

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" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

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" The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. "

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" Wherever art appears, life disappears. "

Robert Motherwell

" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. "

Dante Alighieri

" The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. "

William Hazlitt

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. "

" I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art. "

" Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. "

" I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing. "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

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" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

Henry Kissinger

" The temple of art is built in words. "

Josiah Gilbert Holland

" My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. "

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" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

" The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. "

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" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "

" In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. "