"Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke."
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"I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace."
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"Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you."
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"I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express."
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"I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true."
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"There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself."
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"I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close."
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"To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art form. It's a film that is revolting against the old established language of cinema that had been brainwashing the people for decades. It is a film that is trying to find ways to use sound and image differently."
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"I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?"
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"She is well practiced in the art of losing herself."
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"I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself."
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"Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them."
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"Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism."
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"More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."
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"Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature."
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"Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness."
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"My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate."
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"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism."
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"In the domain of art there is no light without heat."
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"Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal."
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