"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."
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"Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms."
"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art."
"Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art."
"I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art."
"Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'"
"A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world."
"Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there."
"Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it."
"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."
"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."
"It's clever, but is it Art?"
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money."
"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."
"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation."
"I will preach with my brush."