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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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" I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me. "

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. "

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

" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "

" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "

" Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. "

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" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

Robert Schumann

" It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. "

Robert Motherwell

" All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. "

" To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace. "

" 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. "

" Art is anything people do with distinction. "

" Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. "

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

" When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. "

" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.' "

Takashi Murakami

" Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. "

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

William Hazlitt

" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "

" Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. "

" We have art in order not to die of the truth. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man. "

" That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think. "

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" Every good painter paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "