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" I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. "

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" To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. "

" I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. "

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

" Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada. "

Jada Pinkett Smith

" To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. "

Charles Baudelaire

" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

Robert Schumann

" The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. "

Robert Anton Wilson

" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "

" The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. "

Gustave Courbet

" It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "

" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "

" Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "

Robert Smithson

" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

Helen Frankenthaler

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "

" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "

" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "

" I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. "

Richard Jefferies

" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "

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

John W. Gardner

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

" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. "

Paul Di Filippo