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" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "

Jackson Pollock

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" Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. "

" From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. "

Marina Abramovic

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. "

" 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? "

" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "

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

" The art of love is largely the art of persistence. "

" I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "

" You begin with the possibilities of the material. "

Robert Rauschenberg

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

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. "

" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "

" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

" When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. "

Richard Phillips

" Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. "

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

" Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

William Hazlitt

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

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

Jackson Pollock

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "