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Gore Vidal
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
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Pablo Picasso
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My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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Erma Bombeck
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Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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Pablo Picasso
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My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Edward Steichen
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe
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Gore Vidal
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
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Rudolph Arnheim
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Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work o
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Robert Browning
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No sketches first, no studies, that???s long past:
I do what many dream of all their lives,
Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive - you don???t
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Albert Camus
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???Less is more??? is said to have been one of the favorite maxims of architect Mies Van der Rohe.
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Christian Cardell Corbet
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it ??“ a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand ??“ as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there???s a clash between the
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Leonardo DaVinci
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When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
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Paul Gauguin
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
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Helen Keller
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While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
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Percy Wynham Lewis
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throb
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the curren
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Un croquis vaut mieux qu???un long discours.Fr., A sketch is better than a long speech.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
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With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings.
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Igor Stravinsky
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Beverly Sills
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Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the former shadows bright,
And with their every beam supply
New day, to draw her picture by.
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Lin Yutang
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
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Oscar Wilde
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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Edith Wharton
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
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Frida Kahlo
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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
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Isak Dineson
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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Penn Jillette
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the expe
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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William Wordsworth
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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William Wordsworth
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Oscar Wilde
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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Oscar Wilde
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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E. B. White
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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Andy Warhol
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Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
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Andy Warhol
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I like boring things.
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Andy Warhol
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
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Andy Warhol
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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
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Andy Warhol
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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Andy Warhol
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I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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Andy Warhol
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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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Gore Vidal
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For half a century photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
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Edgard Varese
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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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Paul Valery
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Benita Valente
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Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.
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John Updike
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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John Updike
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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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Octavio Paz
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'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
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