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Edward Koch

"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."

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"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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Amber Hurdle

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

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"Music communicates with the soul."

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

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"If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it."
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"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end."
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"When all are wrong, everyone is right."
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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."
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"The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it."
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"I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows."
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"We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God."
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"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."
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