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" When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. "

Richard Phillips

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

" The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. "

" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "

" 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. "

" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gogh

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

" If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have. "

Richard Phillips

" 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 art is long, life is short. "

" What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. "

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

William Morris Hunt

" Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. "

Paul Di Filippo

" The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. "

David Rockefeller

" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "

" Art is the proper task of life. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "

Jackson Pollock

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

" Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. "

Barbara Januszkiewicz

" I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. "

Darren Aronofsky

" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "

Jackson Pollock

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

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

" Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside. "

Valentino Rossi

" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "

" What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. "

" Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. "