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" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

David Rockefeller

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John C. McGinley

" 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. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

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

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate. "

David Rockefeller

" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. "

Elizabeth Bowen

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

" When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. "

" When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. "

David Rockefeller

" Gardening always has been an art, essentially. "

" That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. "

" The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. "

Hillary Clinton

" Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. "

Alfred de Vigny

" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "

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" I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. "

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "