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" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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" The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. "

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" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

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" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "

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

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" I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. "

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