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I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas – not right now when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

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Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Patti Smith

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas – not right now when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.