"You are a work of art."
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"Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god."
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"Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must."
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"As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art."
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"Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends"
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"The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity."
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"We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated."
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"If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more"
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"By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work."
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"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
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"Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about."
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"...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to."
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"Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better."
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"In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new."
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"Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual."
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"Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen."
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"I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be."
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"The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals."
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"Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it."
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"The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church."
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