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" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

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" There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. "

Anthony Trollope

" From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in. "

" By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have. "

Preston Sturges

" The message of great art is to disturb. "

" The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky

" Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. "

Edward Steichen

" Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. "

John W. Gardner

" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "

" My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images. "

" I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public. "

" When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. "

" 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 is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

" I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! "

Sean Patrick Thomas

" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "

Russell Simmons

" I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. "

" 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? "

Alain de Botton

" A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. "

" Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. "

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller