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" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "

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" There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. "

Novala Takemoto

" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

W. Somerset Maugham

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

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "

" Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press. "

" It's harder to do anything in the public eye now, in terms of if you're worried about scrutiny or being judged negatively. It's not as much of a free ride. If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets, and they all have an opinion. "

" 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

" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "

" An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath. "

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. "

" 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. "

" My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture. "

" 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. "

" The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. "

Jackson Pollock

" I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. "

" A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. "