"Architecture is art, nothing else."
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"Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo"
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"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."
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"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline."
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"Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
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"All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body."
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"Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity."
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"I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies."
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"The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object."
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"We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat."
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"Art would be useless if the world were perfect."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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"The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians."
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"All great art is a visual form of prayer."
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"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
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"All art critics are useless or harmful."
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"When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum."
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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
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"The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman."
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"There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings."
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