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"I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature."
"It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life."
"Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."
"Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does."
"The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist."
"Art is an attempt to integrate evil."
"The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make."
"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."
"Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted."
"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation"
"There is no art without contemplation."
"Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing."
"The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile."
"It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores."
"I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art"
"Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that."
"My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate."
"First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird."
"I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire."
"When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization."
