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" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

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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. "

" All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. "

" To know one thing, you must know the opposite. "

" Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. "

" To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. "

" 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

" I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. "

" The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. "

" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings. "

" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "

Robert Schumann

" The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. "

" Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. "

" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "

" '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

" 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. "

Bozoma Saint John

" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "

" People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. "

" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

" I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do. "

" No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

Henry Kissinger