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" Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. "

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" Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. "

Barrett Foa

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" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "

W. H. Auden

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" Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

Octavio Paz

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" Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. "

" Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition. "

" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. "

" Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. "

" Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music. "

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "

Isaac Newton

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" Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. "

" The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. "

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

" I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. "

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. "

" With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' "

Yayoi Kusama

Sun

Stars

" Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. "

" To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out. "

" As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed. "

John Maeda

Take

Control

" It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. "

" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. "

" I don't really love computers. "

" The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. "

" I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. "

" With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. "

" In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. "

" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "