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" Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. "

William Wordsworth

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" My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. "

" Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. "

" I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. "

" Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

George Bernard Shaw

" The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master. "

Richard Branson

" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

Steve Prefontaine

" As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. "

" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "

" The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

William Hazlitt

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

" To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. "

Herman Melville

" The art of love is largely the art of persistence. "

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

" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "

" Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work. "

" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

Maria Sibylla Merian

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

William Wordsworth

" A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. "

" I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. "

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter. "

" I always saw candy as art. "

" The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. "

" There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. "

" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "

" Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. "

Austin O'Malley