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" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "

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" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

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" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "

" Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "

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" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. "

" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "

" Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' "

Jef I. Richards

" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "

" I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. "

" Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. "

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" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

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" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

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" 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.' "

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" If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. "

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