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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

As a matter of fact, there is still a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to find a way to get to it.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

As an actor on sets, Ive always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.