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" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "

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" The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. "

Tom Reiss

Fight

Justice

Art

" To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art. "

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

" I cry out for order and find it only in art. "

" The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. "

" To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. "

" A picture is worth a thousand words. "

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

" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "

" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art

Expression

Vision

" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "

" Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "

" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

" The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art. "

" When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. "

" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

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

" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

Pablo Picasso

Truth

Realize

" My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place. "

" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "

" 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. "

" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "

" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end. "

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Shopping

End

Beach

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

" O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. "

" 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. "