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" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "

" Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. "

" As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. "

Margaret Atwood

" 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

" Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. "

" To create a work of art is to create the world. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. "

" Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada. "

Jada Pinkett Smith

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. "

" Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. "

" 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. "

" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

Lorraine Hansberry

" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

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

Robert Schumann

" When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. "

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. "

" A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

" What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. "

" Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. "

" The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. "

" I love photography, and I love the art of photography. "

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

Tennessee Williams

" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "

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

" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "