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" I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. "
Richard Avedon
I Think
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" 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
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" The message of great art is to disturb. "
Elayne Boosler
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" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "
Christopher Marlowe
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" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "
Donald Judd
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" Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. "
Malcolm Forbes
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" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. "
Hisham Matar
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" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "
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" The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "
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" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "
Andrew Wyeth
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" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "
Timothy Olyphant
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" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "
Lewis Mumford
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" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "
Madonna Ciccone
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" For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture. "
Bozoma Saint John
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" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "
H. L. Mencken
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Science
" A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. "
Hedy Lamarr
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" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "
Ray Bradbury
" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "
Robert Musil
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" Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. "
Balthus
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" Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. "
Pierre Bonnard
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Your
" 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
Beautiful
Mind
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" Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. "
Antoni Gaudi
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" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "
Martin McDonagh
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" Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. "
Iris Murdoch
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" I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. "
Salma Hayek
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" People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. "
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" Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music. "
Phil Anselmo
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