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" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

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" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

Langston Hughes

" I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "

" Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. "

Shaquille O'Neal

" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "

Robert Delaunay

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off. "

" To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. "

Charles Baudelaire

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "

" Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. "

" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

William S. Burroughs

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels. "

Denise Morrison

" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "

" It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. "

Alfred Eisenstaedt

" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "

" I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. "

" The best artists know what to leave out. "

Charles de Lint

" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "

" An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. "

Maurice Chevalier

" Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. "

" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "

Oliver Goldsmith

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. "

Jackson Pollock

" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" 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. "

" Art history is littered with work that involves light. "

" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "

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