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" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

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" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

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Speech

" Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. "

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

" My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. "

" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

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

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. "

" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "

" I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it. "

" Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. "

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Find

" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "

" I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win. "

" Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. "

" I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. "

" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "

" I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. "

" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

" The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. "

" You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "

" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "

" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

Helen Frankenthaler

Art

Born

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

" Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. "

" 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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Art

" I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? "

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

Oscar Wilde

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Things