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" I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. "

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Kenneth Branagh

" You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. "

Octavia Spencer

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

Herman Melville

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" In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. "

" In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. "

" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. "

" A great artist is always before his time or behind it. "

George Edward Moore

" In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. "

" Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. "

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

" I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. "

" There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. "

Daphne Guinness

" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "

" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

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

" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "

John F. Kennedy

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

George Santayana

" Paint the essential character of things. "

Camille Pissarro

" 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? "

" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "

Madonna Ciccone

" I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. "

William Butler Yeats

" Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. "

Alfred de Vigny

" Personality is everything in art and poetry. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "