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All you need is love.

The Beatles

Music

I want to create art that makes you think about life and death, and everything in between.

Damien Hirst

Visual Arts

Art is about communication. It's about a dialogue. It's about sharing ideas. It's about sharing feelings. It's about sharing your own humanity.

Jeff Koons

Visual Arts

A work of art is not a thing that is finished, but a thing that is begun.

Henry Moore

Visual Arts

Simplicity is not an end in art, but we arrive at simplicity in spite of ourselves, as we approach the real meaning of things.

Constantin Brâncuși

Visual Arts

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miró

Visual Arts

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

René Magritte

Visual Arts

From my rotting body, flowers will grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Visual Arts

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Egon Schiele

Visual Arts

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Gustav Klimt

Visual Arts

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

Ai Weiwei

Visual Arts

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Banksy

Visual Arts

I am a modern Alice in Wonderland.

Yayoi Kusama

Visual Arts

Pop Art is not American painting but industrial painting.

Roy Lichtenstein

Visual Arts

The most important tool the artist fashions is himself.

Mark Rothko

Visual Arts

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

Visual Arts

The new art is not a search for a new style, but for a new vision.

Piet Mondrian

Visual Arts

I have transformed myself in the zero of form and dragged myself out of the rubbish of academic art.

Kazimir Malevich

Visual Arts

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Georges Braque

Visual Arts

I want to make of Impressionism something solid and durable like the art of the museums.

Paul Cézanne

Visual Arts