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" When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

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" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "

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" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "

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" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

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" Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. "

" The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice. "

Fernando Botero

" I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection. "

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

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

" I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" 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. "

" 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 sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. "

" The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. "

" Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. "

" Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. "

" For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. "

" 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. "

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" A line is a dot that went for a walk. "