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" Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. "

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" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" 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? "

" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

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" There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "

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

" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. "

" 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. "

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "

" Trash has given us an appetite for art. "

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

" That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. "

" Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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" I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. "

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" For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. "

" Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. "

" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

" By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have. "

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" I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "

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" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "

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" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "