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" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

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" I paint with shapes. "

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" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "

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" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "

" Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. "

" I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

" It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. "

" There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "

" You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. "

" There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "

William Shakespeare

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

Kenneth Lonergan

" 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. "

" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "

" One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. "

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

" Art is the most beautiful of all lies. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" Great art picks up where nature ends. "

" But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things. "

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

Ludwig van Beethoven