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To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

— Jerry Saltz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Marco Tempest

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.

— Joanna Scott

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

— Leslie Odom, Jr.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

— Ben Folds

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

— Henry Rollins

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

— Jean Cocteau

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

— Pink

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

— Russell Simmons

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

— Jeff Koons

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