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" If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. "

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" Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. "

" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "

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" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. "

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" 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. "

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

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" The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. "

" A great artist is always before his time or behind it. "

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" 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. "

" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "

" The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. "

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

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" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

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" There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. "

" 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. "

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" Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. "

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" Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. "

" Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. "

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" Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. "

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" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

" Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. "

" I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame. "

" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "