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" Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. "

Robert Smithson

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Stephen Sondheim

" Baking is both an art and a science. "

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "

" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "

" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "

" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "

" If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. "

" Extreme complication is contrary to art. "

" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "

Roy Lichtenstein

" I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "

" There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press. "

" To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection. "

" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "

" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. "

" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing. "

" It appears to be monumental only because it's art. "

" I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. "

David Cronenberg

" Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. "

" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "

Theodore Dreiser

" Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. "