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" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky

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" I always saw candy as art. "

" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

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" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "

" My painting does not come from the easel. "

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" The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

Henry Ward Beecher

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

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. "

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" Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. "

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "

" 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. "

" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

William S. Burroughs

" There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. "

Anthony Trollope

" When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends. "

" 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. "

" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "

" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "

Marina Abramovic

" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

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" My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

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" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "

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" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "