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I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don't care what they wear, they sort of have to.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.

I loved being just one of 11 newspaper majors at my college, immersing myself in the age-old art of news-gathering.

And I know I will run for the rest of my life because the actual act and art and feeling of running I love, and I hope to compete on a high level.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture.

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.

I want to learn how to do balloon art and make dolphins.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.