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" I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. "

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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. "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

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

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" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

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" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

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" I am not strong on perfection. "

" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

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

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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

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" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "

" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" 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.

" What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. "

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "

" In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. "

" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "

" Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art. "

" If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. "

" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "

" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "

" 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!' "

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" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "

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" 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. "

" All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" 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. "