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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

I was raised doing martial arts.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Art is competitive.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

I've always been interested in martial arts.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered.

Well, I'm an artist to the core.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

I want to be free.

I wanted to be an artist.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you

Art! Who comprehends her?