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" When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. "

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" 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. "

Glenn Gould

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" If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. "

" I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. "

" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. "

" Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. "

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. "

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "

" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "

" I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear. "

" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "

" The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. "

" We have art in order not to die of the truth. "

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

" Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time. "

" Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. "

" The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. "

" Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. "

" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life

Water

" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

" Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. "

" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "

" I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. "

" When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure. "

Shepard Fairey

Just

Audience