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" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. "

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" Wherever art appears, life disappears. "

Robert Motherwell

" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "

" Paint the essential character of things. "

Camille Pissarro

" Extreme complication is contrary to art. "

" The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. "

" For me, I see filmmaking as art. "

" Art is not a thing; it is a way. "

" Every artist writes his own autobiography. "

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

Alfred de Vigny

" One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. "

" Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. "

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

Austin O'Malley

" I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer. "

W. Bruce Cameron

" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

Langston Hughes

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

" I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? "

Alain de Botton

" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "

Jackson Pollock

" Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. "

" Land really is the best art. "

" Marry me and I'll never look at another horse! "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.' "

Takashi Murakami

" All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. "

Federico Fellini

" 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

" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. "

Lincoln Steffens

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "