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" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

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" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. "

" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

" 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. "

" In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. "

" The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. "

" Every artist writes his own autobiography. "

" 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. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "

" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "

" People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage. "

" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Space is the breath of art. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

Alexander Calder

" The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" 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. "

" Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. "

" The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. "

" I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all. "

" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "

William S. Burroughs

" All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' "

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

" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

Steve Prefontaine

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

Saint Augustine

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "