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" I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure. "

Mira Nair

Nature

Art

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" 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. "

" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. "

" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

" The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. "

" The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place. "

" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "

" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

" In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration. "

" I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art. "

" The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. "

" Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you're a terrorist; if you're an American, you might be a militarist. Those kind of prisms that we see each other through are really stultifying, and they don't often show the complexity and the incredible warmth and encompassing of the world. "

" 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. "

" Art and life are inseparable. "

" A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. "

" Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. "

" Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. "

" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

" My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. "

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

Jay Kay

Government

Tax

" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "

" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "

" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

" Space is the breath of art. "

" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "

" Layer by layer art strips life bare. "

" 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. "