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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.