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When you create art, the world has to wait.

~ Will Smith

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

~ Banksy

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

~ Tom Stoppard

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

~ Aaron Siskind

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

~ Andy Warhol

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

~ Nobu Matsuhisa

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

~ Alberto Giacometti

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

~ Stella Adler

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

~ William Morris

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

~ Tom Freston

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

~ George Lucas

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

~ Robert Rauschenberg

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

~ William Butler Yeats

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

~ Leo Burnett

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

~ Duke Ellington

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

~ Walter Pater

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

~ Graham Nelson

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

~ Laurie Anderson

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

~ Henry Ossawa Tanner

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

~ Noah Taylor

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

~ Plato

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

~ Mark Twain

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

~ Pericles

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

~ Milton Friedman

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

~ Caskie Stinnett

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

~ John Adams

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

~ Winston Churchill

The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

~ Gail Collins

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

~ Jackie Kennedy

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

~ John Morley

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

~ Robert Byrne

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

~ Charles Dance

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

~ R. A. Butler

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

~ Stanley Baldwin

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

~ Charles Kennedy

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

~ Benjamin Netanyahu

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

~ Ann Richards