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" The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. "

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" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. "

" Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. "

" An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. "

" The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. "

" 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. "

" I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

" Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. "

Henry Louis Gates

" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

Albert Einstein

" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "

" I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. "

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

" The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other. "

" Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. "

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "

" Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. "

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. "

Steve Prefontaine

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

" I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! "

Sean Patrick Thomas

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

Alfred de Vigny

" In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. "

Harry Belafonte

" If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? "

" It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Art is the proper task of life. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I am not strong on perfection. "

" When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. "