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" The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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" 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. "

" Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. "

" Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. "

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" You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. "

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" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

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" The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. "

" What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

" You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. "

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" Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. "

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" The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

" Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. "

" Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing. "

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" Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. "

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

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