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" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

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" 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. "

" We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. "

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" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

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" I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. "

" Art depends on luck and talent. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" 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. "

" I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. "

" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "

" Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. "

" There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "

" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

Langston Hughes

" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. "

" I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. "

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

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

" In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. "

" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

Alexander Calder

" 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. "

" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "

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