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" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

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" All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self. "

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" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. "

" Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. "

" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "

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" To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. "

" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "

" Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

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" 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. "

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" Gardening always has been an art, essentially. "

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