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" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

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" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "

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

" 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'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "

Carroll O'Connor

" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "

" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

Langston Hughes

" 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. "

" A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. "

" Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. "

John W. Gardner

" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "

Henry Louis Gates

" Great art picks up where nature ends. "

" I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look. "

" Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. "

" 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. "

" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "

Robert Delaunay

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

" There is nothing new in art except talent. "

" Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. "

" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "

" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "

Angela Cartwright

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

Michel Foucault

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

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

" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

" Every good painter paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

Alfred de Vigny

" The goal of art was the vital expression of self. "

Alfred Stieglitz