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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Shadows sometimes people do not see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it is not art.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it is not really a lot of work.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I do not mind, I am just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there is not really a mainstream anymore, is there?

If you do not get noticed, you do not have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers songs and so forth.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

It is important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Art is vice. You do not marry it legitimately, you rape it.