"The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time."
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"Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators."
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"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
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"Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul."
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"Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people."
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"Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation."
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"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."
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"I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills."
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"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives."
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"In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art."
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"The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations."
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"I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too."
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"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."
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"I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you."
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"Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man."
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"I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children."
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"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
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"You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow."
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"To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules."
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"All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty."
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