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" 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
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Me
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" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "
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" I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art. "
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" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. "
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" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Art
Like
" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "
John Updike
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" The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice. "
Fernando Botero
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" 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
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Art
Life
" The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. "
Douglas Horton
Puzzle
Simplicity
Complexity
" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "
Beyonce Knowles
Focus
Believe
Love
" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Art
Yourself
Crazy
" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "
Andre Gide
Serenity
Suits
Art
" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "
Paul Gauguin
Philosophy
Art
Beauty
" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "
Lynda Resnick
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Ugly
Art
" We have art in order not to die of the truth. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Order
Truth
Art
" Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. "
Mickey Hart
Learning
Creativity
Art
" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "
Andre Gide
Art
Resistance
Overcome
" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "
Robert Wilson
Egypt
Look
Ancient
" 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
Become
Art
Me
" Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. "
Andre Malraux
Art
Revolt
Man
" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "
Andy Warhol
People
Things
Art
" 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. "
Camille Paglia
Boring
Head
Art
" I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. "
Pink
Art
Uncomfortable
Think
" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "
Wassily Kandinsky
Today
Music
Life
" If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. "
Anais Nin
Breathe
Art
Cry
" Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job. "
Jay Kay
Difficult
Candy
Home
" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "
Andy Warhol
Business
Best
Art
" Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. "
James Joyce
Recognize
Cannot
Pleasure
" Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. "
Donald Judd
Art
Most
Away
" I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? "
Alain de Botton
Love
You
Society