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" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "

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" It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. "

" People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. "

" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

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

" Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. "

Austin O'Malley

" We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art. "

" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "

" After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. "

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

" My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. "

Harry Belafonte

" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

" The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. "

" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "

" I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. "

" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle. "

Russell Simmons

" Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. "

" 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. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look. "

" With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" In art the best is good enough. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

" Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. "