Art
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring — an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Politics is the art of the next best.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Riding a race bike is an art — a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.
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