Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde

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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Banksy

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Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.

Banksy

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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Mikhail Bakunin

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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer

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There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent van Gogh

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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Benjamin Constant

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Do you write novels?" I said.

"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

Pam Houston

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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Ansel Adams

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