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" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

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" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "

" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care. "

" Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family. "

" I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions. "

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" 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. "

" As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. "

Margaret Atwood

" I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "

" Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. "

" Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" 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

" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "

" Of all lies, art is the least untrue. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. "

" We are most alive when we're in love. "

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" Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. "

" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "

" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

" If it's good art, it's good. "

Kenneth Branagh

" 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

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

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" You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms. "

" Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. "

" My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines. "

" The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. "

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "