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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Michael Korda
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
John Lone
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Richard Foreman
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Sol LeWitt
My art became very public.
Joey Skaggs
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel Duchamp
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
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George Santayana
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Robert Smithson
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
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