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" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

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" Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. "

Laurence J. Peter

" What is art but a way of seeing? "

" 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. "

" I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. "

" My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. "

Joyce Carol Oates

" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. "

" I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. "

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "

" A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. "

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store. "

" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. "

" Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" A great artist is always before his time or behind it. "

George Edward Moore

" A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. "

" As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience. "

" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

" 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. "

" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "

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