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" My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place. "

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" Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. "

" We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. "

" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

" I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. "

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" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "

" 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. "

" The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. "

" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "

" 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. "

" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. "

David Ben-Gurion

" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

Winston Churchill

" I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. "

" I consider myself endlessly lucky to have access to the Internet and technology. Through it, I've found myself and have been able to join a new discourse of females, young and old, who strive to change the way we look and treat ourselves. "

" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

Abraham Lincoln

" To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. "

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" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "

" Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. "

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" There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity. "

" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "

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