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" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. " - Mark Strand

" Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. " - Pierre Loti

" I write what I see; I paint what I am. " - Etel Adnan

" I like all sorts of art, that’s why I love wandering around The National Gallery. " - Samuel Barnett

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

" Emotions are the basics of any art form! " - Jean-Michel Jarre

" Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I’m an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That’s the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing. " - Ben Eine

" We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country. " - Richard Briers

" My work looks like a comic book in form, but it’s not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. " - Harvey Pekar

" I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. " - Tom Wolfe