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" It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. "

Robert Motherwell

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" Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. "

" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

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" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

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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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" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

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" Even a true artist does not always produce art. "

Carroll O'Connor

" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

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" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

" Land really is the best art. "

" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "

Madonna Ciccone

" What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. "

" To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. "

" When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. "

" Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. "

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "

" 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. "

" Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. "

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" 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. "

" The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. "

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

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