"Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art."
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"Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria."
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"As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse."
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"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."
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"This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being."
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"The basis of art is change in the universe."
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"Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?"
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"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."
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"But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back."
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"You don't make art, you find it"
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"A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges."
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"I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before."
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"Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?"
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"It was written without fear and without research."
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"Man, there's no boundary line to art!"
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"An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question."
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"Creativity is the art of concealing your sources."
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"Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war."
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"In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite."
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"My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting."
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