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" One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. "

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" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope. "

" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

Andy Goldsworthy

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" 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. "

Shaquille O'Neal

" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

David Rockefeller

" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "

" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "

" Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. "

" The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. "

" The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. "

" 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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" The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. "

" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "

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

" Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. "

" You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms. "

" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "

" The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. "

" Every good painter paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. "

" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "