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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "

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

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W. Bruce Cameron

" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky

" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "

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Takashi Murakami

" Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. "

Constantin Brancusi

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

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" Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' "

Takashi Murakami

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" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "

" Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys. "

Milo Yiannopoulos

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

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" Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Extreme complication is contrary to art. "

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William Morris Hunt

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

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" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

Lorraine Hansberry

" The art of communication is the language of leadership. "