"Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art"
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"I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."
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"The object of Art is to give life a shape."
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"Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless."
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"One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!"
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"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
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"If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them."
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"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."
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"No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique."
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"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
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"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
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"I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take."
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"Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so."
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"I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise."
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"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious."
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"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
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"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way."
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"The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it."
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"All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising."
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"Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream."
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