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" My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. "
J. Paul Getty
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" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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" I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. "
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" I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. "
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" All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. "
Iris Murdoch
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" In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people. "
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" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "
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" I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer. "
W. Bruce Cameron
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" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "
Hunter S. Thompson
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" 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
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" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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" A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. "
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" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "
Oscar Wilde
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" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "
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" I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. "
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" Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. "
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" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "
Angela Cartwright
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" 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
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" Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "
Charlie Parker
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" I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. "
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" You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. "
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" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "
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" There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. "
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" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "
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" To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. "
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" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "
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" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "
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