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" The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. "

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" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "

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" The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

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" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

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" A great artist is always before his time or behind it. "

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" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

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" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. "

" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "

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" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. "

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "

" You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. "

" If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. "

" There is nothing new in art except talent. "

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" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "

" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "

" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "

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" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "

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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

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" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "

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" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "